Changes to primops break libraries (was Re: 7.8 Feature window)

Simon Marlow marlowsd at gmail.com
Mon Aug 26 11:27:22 CEST 2013


On 26/08/13 09:50, Jan Stolarek wrote:

>> I don't mind breaking these very low-level APIs.
> We are breaking that API at the moment, except that you propose to break it by chnaging type
> signatures, whereas I chose to break it by changing names. So currently the change in primops
> will not go unnoticed.

So since we have to break the API anyway, why not break it in the way 
that we want?

Cheers,
	Simon





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