On Jun 24, 2008, at 09:57 , Isaac Dupree wrote:
Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
Hello Ashley, Tuesday, June 24, 2008, 1:15:19 PM, you wrote:
Make Applicative (in Control.Applicative) a superclass of Monad (in it will break H98 compatibility - some code written in H98 will be impossible to compile with such library. since GHC is (among other features) provides full H98 compatibility, we can't make such change
Is there any practical way we can make this change while still making it possible to compile Haskell98 programs at all? It seems that even with a compiler flag, it will be difficult to do with
Problem there is that Monad is exported by Prelude. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH