13 Mar
2015
13 Mar
'15
7:03 p.m.
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015, Michael Sloan wrote:
Agreed, -1 from me. Painting the bike shed isn't a very good use of everyone's brainpower, and doing so in an incremental fashion will just drag out the pain of Prelude / base redesign. Lets either rip off the band aid in one go, or settle with modern Haskell eschewing much of the Prelude.
Personally, things like this and BBP make me wish there wasn't a Prelude in the first place.
I would prefer to stop patching Prelude and instead promote: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/SplitBase