Johan Tibell wrote:
We shouldn't be afraid to use composition to prevent a combinatorial explosion i.e. don't have a sendAsUtf8, sendAsUtf16 but instead do send $ Text.encode Utf8 "myString"
OK, makes sense. But then, that should appear very explicitly in the documentation. It will be the most common usage, and people using it will not be focused on Network, Bytestring, and Text, but on other things. They should not be forced to thrash around and do a research project just to do something simple. Thomas DuBuisson wrote:
6) Integrate with the rest of hackage. This means instance of PrettyClass, Parsec, and Binary.
I must disagree here. We don't want hard coupling to lots of other libraries.
It won't be a problem if the convenience glue is in separate packages that pull in all of the dependencies. But then, these other packages need to be mentioned in the documentation for the main package. Regards, Yitz