14 Jun
2012
14 Jun
'12
5:16 p.m.
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Ian Lynagh
Hi all,
Historically, Data.HashTable has been in base because Data.Typeable used it, but that is no longer the case.
I propose that we: * Mark it as deprecated in the base that comes with GHC 7.6. * Remove it from the base that comes with GHC 7.8.
Sounds good to me. We should move some HashTable implementation into containers. I don't know about this particular one. I'm leaning towards using one from the hashtables package as it 1) uses type classes which optimize better and 2) give us better guarantees (i.e. two Int keyed hash tables will use the same hash function.) For that to happen hashable needs to move into the platform as well. -- Johan