On Wed, 13 May 2009, Sittampalam, Ganesh wrote:
We've discussed replacing it with transformers+monads-fd+an mtl compatiblity layer on libraries@. Ross and I plan to propose doing this for the second release of the platform - it's not fair to disrupt the first release at this stage.
transformers+monads-fd is quite a small evolution over mtl - it factors out the fundeps into a separate package, tightens up some of the class constraints, and makes State = StateT Identity etc rather than a separate type. Even this breaks a few packages, but doing anything more substantial would be quite disruptive. That's not to say that we shouldn't do it, though.
I guess the libraries@ list will continue to be the place that such decisions get made, but I think it's a bit up in the air at the moment.
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