[Haskell-cafe] deriving

[Hans Aberg]

On 8 Apr 2008, at 10:47, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
>> "deriving" which I think is not used elsewhere. It will break a lot
>> of code, but it is easy to change, and also easy to make a
>> compatibility mode.
>
> it's also easy to replace all the books, update all code repositories
> and reteach all the programmers if you ready to pay for it all :D

I guess it is only the code breaking part that is any concern of  
standard. It is really up to the companies to pay for courses  
retraining programmers for the word change. As for the books, it is a  
good selling opportunity.

   Hans