Making GHCi awesomer?

[Carter Schonwald]

different versions will be considered to have *different* types (albeit
with the same name)


On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Christopher Allen <cma at bitemyapp.com>
wrote:

> Sorry to bother everybody, but where is this documented? What happens if
> incompatible versions pass data between each other?
>
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Edward Z. Yang <ezyang at mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> Excerpts from Eric Seidel's message of 2014-10-20 09:32:41 -0700:
>> > I read recently that Rust has some sort of symbol-mangling in place to
>> allow multiple versions of the same library to co-exist within a single
>> build.
>> >
>> > How feasible would it be to add this feature to GHC? At a first glance
>> it seems like it would help substantially.
>>
>> GHC already has this feature (and in 7.10, it will be upgraded to allow
>> multiple instances of the same version of a library, but with different
>> dependencies).  The problem here is that Cabal doesn't understand how
>> to put dependencies together like this.
>>
>> Edward
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