Isn't H98 a bit old now... Surely some of the common extensions are well known and useful enough to be standardised... I read somewhere the Haskell standards commitee has been dispanded - and that the consensus of implementers would replace it. Surely all that has to happen is the ghc, hugs, nhc, (and others) get together and recognise some extensions (say multi-parameter types, fundeps) as compliant to Haskell-2005 and we have an updated standard? Keean. Sven Panne wrote:
Apart from the recent Monoid problems, I'm a bit concerned about the non-portable ReadP creeping into some modules, making them non-H98. This affects e.g. Cabal and even something as simple as System.Info (which incorrectly claims that is portable). IMHO we should really keep at least those portable, even if this would involve a little bit more work. Is local universal quantification really needed for those simple parsing tasks? It looks a bit like overkill here...
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