Re: Haskell Platform Proposal: add the 'text' library

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 9/7/10 23:37 , Krasimir Angelov wrote:

2010/9/8 Bryan O'Sullivan :

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It doesn't really. As you note, the stuff in base is all tied to I/O on Handles, whereas the functions in the text package are pure.

It doesn't mean that it is not possible to make them pure. The operations are pure in nature.

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Unfortunately, that's not possible, as it would break backwards compatibility with 6.10, which some industrial users still need.

I guess you mean that then the text package will not work with 6.10. I

He means that text won't work with 6.10 *if* it's changed to use the conversion routines that only exist in 6.12+ as you seem to be demanding. - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyHB8sACgkQIn7hlCsL25UiAACePqrK1E+cor7KPUVfE+BSoi20 wggAoKuwOzGDHtz0roRS4b0IbPJrCBG8 =fpmo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----