[Hs-Generics] Re: Splitting SYB from the base package in GHC 6.10

Sean Leather leather at cs.uu.nl
Tue Sep 2 08:00:19 EDT 2008


On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 12:50, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:

>  Sean Your analysis is good, but missing the following
>
>   You can build stuff on class Data **other than** SYB.  That's a
> motivation for not identifying Data with SYB.
>
> That's really the argument for keeping Data in 'base', so that others can
> build on it without depending on the full glory of SYB.
>
 Ah, okay. Then, that is a stronger argument.

Thanks,
Sean
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