On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:30 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones <simonpj@microsoft.com> wrote:
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