New type of ($) operator in GHC 8.0 is problematic
Manuel M T Chakravarty
chak at justtesting.org
Tue Feb 16 00:30:26 UTC 2016
> Ben Gamari <ben at smart-cactus.org>:
> builds. In effect the message to users would be,
>
> "yes, unboxed types exist and they are now on sound theoretical
> footing, but they are still largely an implementation detail, just as
> they have always been. If you want to use them you need to know
> where to look."
>
> Perhaps this can be revisited at some point in the future when we have a
> better story for a beginner's Prelude but for now I'm not sure we want
> to subject everyone to these new types.
>
> Anyways, this is just my two cents. It would be nice to hear what others
> think.
Sounds like a good plan to me.
Manuel
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