On 2008-01-29, Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Aaron,
Tuesday, January 29, 2008, 10:23:46 PM, you wrote:
i have several hundred one-liners in my Utils.hs. with such speed of adding these funcs to the base, you will add only these funcs the next 10 years. does this mean that haskell hackers will continue to mutate the language these next 10 years? :(
That's the whole point of "avoiding success" -- so we can continue to make changes.
well, you want haskell that remains hacker's tool, i want haskell used for development of real programs, such as darcs and ghc itself
"Researchers' tool", rather. Hackers write programs that import entire modules willy-nilly. Real program can afford to import selectively or qualified for future proofing. A thought: perhaps Haskell prime should have local definitions shadow imported ones, rather than conflicting. Mandating a warning might be worth it though. -- Aaron Denney -><-