<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Dominick Samperi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:djsamperi@gmail.com" target="_blank">djsamperi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":1xu" class="a3s aXjCH m1552785f9dd6d210">Consequently, it refuses to install with the latest ghc provided with<br>
the Haskell Platform (8.0.1).</div></blockquote></div><br>base is not defined by the Platform, it is defined by (and ships with, and must completely match) ghc.</div><div class="gmail_extra">And no, backward compatibility is not guaranteed; for a recent example, ghc 7.10 broke many programs by making Applicative a "superclass" of Monad and by generalizing many Prelude functions to Foldable and/or Traversable.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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