On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 06:09:10PM -0400, adam vogt wrote:
At some point I tried something that's perhaps a bit more ambitious, at least in terms of re-order things like layout modifiers: http://projects.haskell.org/xmonad-extras/XMonad-Config-Alt.html but I think your TH solution to the layout issue is more likely to go into contrib instead of perhaps going into xmonad-extras
Hey, Adam. Yeah, I noticed your Config.Alt after I sent that email (and started doing some archaeology on xmonad). That's definitely more ambitious than mine. I admit I'm not so good with the type-hackery so I wouldn't have dared try that. My ultimate goal is something that could one day become the defult xmonad config syntax (after I win hearts and minds in contrib). I may still try to use NoImplicitPrelude and type-variadic monadishes -- I'd love to get rid of the code generation.
In principle there is an objection to template haskell (and fclabels which requires it), since there are supposedly some situations where you can get a ghc but no ghci which I recall is required for template haskell to run. But maybe that isn't a big deal anymore.
Some situations? As in some platforms that don't carry TH because of a dependence on some ghci code? Since fclabels is a fairly new package (and template-haskell possibly not universally available?), it might also make sense to delay submission until after the 1.0 release *ahem*, to make it easier for the Linux distros. -- You are magnetic in your bearing. Lucky Numbers 22, 35, 44, 2, 18, 39 LEARN CHINESE - Miss You Xiang-nian ni 想念您