Why upper bound version numbers?

[Brandon Allbery]

On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Dominick Samperi <djsamperi at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Consequently, it refuses to install with the latest ghc provided with
> the Haskell Platform (8.0.1).
>

base is not defined by the Platform, it is defined by (and ships with, and
must completely match) ghc.
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.

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