I'd forgotten about that, Edward. Yes, without that, one or the other would have to change, and not necessarily for the good.

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Edward Kmett <ekmett@gmail.com> wrote:
A secondary reason for their inclusion is explicitly to avoid randomly changing the semantics of the versions supplied by Prelude by changing to the definitions from Foldable.

E.g. foldl vs foldr based sum and the like.

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> On Sep 19, 2014, at 5:05 PM, Henning Thielemann <lemming@henning-thielemann.de> wrote:
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>> On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, David Feuer wrote:
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>> Joachim, you may be right about sum and product; I really don't know. Henning: this doesn't change the Data.Foldable API at all. Data.Foldable already exports all of these functions, and the class would give each of them a valid default implementation.
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> For consumers of the functions it would not change much. However, user instances with custom implementations of the new methods cannot be used with older Prelude versions anymore.
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