26 May
2011
26 May
'11
8:32 a.m.
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:30 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones
I'd love to do this, but it'd mean that GHC wouldn't conform to Haskell 98 unless we shipped two versions of the libraries, which seems overkill.
Do you think that's acceptable? I think it probably is. We can just record it as a shortcoming of GHC, but it's one that no one will care about.
Simon
+1 While we wouldn't comply with Haskell 98, the only difference would be that slightly more code could type check and a number of instances for things like Complex can be written that couldn't before. How terrible. ;) -Edward