ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 1

Simon Peyton-Jones simonpj at microsoft.com
Wed Dec 28 13:48:02 CET 2011


| By the way, is there a reason behind the fact that “Constraint” uses the
| ordinary case, while “BOX” has all three letters capitalized? Wouldn’t
| it be more sensible if it were “Box” instead of “BOX”?

Only that BOX is a sort (currently the one and only sort), whereas Constraint is a kind.  I'm not sure that BOX should ever be displayed to users.

Simon


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