Type class for sanity

David Feuer david.feuer at gmail.com
Mon Jan 25 17:35:13 UTC 2016


You're correct. Please forget that name.
On Jan 25, 2016 12:33 PM, "wren romano" <wren at community.haskell.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 7:34 AM, Richard Eisenberg <eir at cis.upenn.edu>
> wrote:
> > But I suggest a different name. Ground? Terminating? NormalForm?
> Irreducible? ValueType? I don't love any of these, but I love Sane less.
>
> I'm also strongly opposed to using "sane". That name is ableist and
> quite offputting to many Haskellers I know (myself included). To say
> nothing of the fact that the name doesn't provide any useful
> understanding of what precisely it's supposed to be categorizing.
>
> --
> Live well,
> ~wren
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