[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANNOUNCE: Utrecht Haskell Compiler (UHC) -- first release

[Lennart Augustsson]

If every implementor got to choose what subset of the standard to
implement that all code would have have to written in the implemented
intersection.  I think that's a terrible idea.
The Haskell98 standard was set so there would be a baseline that
people could rely on.

When I implemented Haskell (both times) there were odds and ends that
I really hated (some of those feelings have changed), but I did it
anyway.

  -- Lennart

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Bulat Ziganshin
<bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Jon,
>
> Monday, April 20, 2009, 1:59:07 PM, you wrote:
>
>> It's not an implementor's place to make such decisions --
>> they can legitimately say "this feature sucks" and tell the
>> next Haskell committee so. If they care enough about it,
>> they can lobby or get on that next committee, but the
>> arguments for n+k patterns /in Haskell98/ were done long
>> ago.
>
> if you really believe in that you said, you can spend your own time
> adding its support :)  i never seen n+k patterns in real code so i
> understand developers that don't want to waste time just to compliant
> standard even if their efforts will be never really used
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com
>
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