Hello Ian,
Why is all this GHC-only? If the earlier stuff really does need to be GHC-only, shouldn't this be too?
I agree with you. There are no needs to be GHC-only. However, my code imports GHC.List and GHC.Word (not Data.List and Data.Word because they import Data.Char). These requirements are implementation dependent. I have little knowledge about other implementation; I do not know the appropriate module names for NHC or Hugs or other implementations. I have no testing environments for them. And also, the problem of UTF-8 encoding is currently GHC specific, IMHO. I'd like to solve this at first. I intend to discuss whether UTF-8 code is included in base or not. The restrictions can be lately released, if needed. Thanks Jun Mukai mukai@jmuk.org