[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANNOUNCE: Utrecht Haskell Compiler (UHC) --
first release
John A. De Goes
john at n-brain.net
Thu Apr 23 10:11:23 EDT 2009
On Apr 22, 2009, at 11:30 PM, Richard O'Keefe wrote:
>> so any decision on what features to exclude from future versions of
>> Haskell must necessarily look at publicly accessible source code.
>
> Wrong. There is no "necessarily" about it. People made decisions
> about what to deprecate in the Fortran and COBOL standards without
> looking at publicly accessible source code.
I'm talking about the only rational way to do it. It's irrational for
language maintainers to remove features that are widely used in
publicly available source code, as such changes are detrimental to the
success of the language. Thus, rational language maintainers will
decide what features to exclude from future versions of Haskell by
looking at publicly accessible source code.
> And the decision to remove n+k patterns from Haskell', wrong though
> I think it was, was NOT made on a nose-counting basis. Or if it was,
> there is not the slightest evidence of it in
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/RemoveNPlusK
Numerous people have contributed to that discussion, and the consensus
is that too few people are using them to justify the feature. Indeed,
in this very discussion, you are the only one advocating them. What
does that tell you?
> It's also a straw man argument. Nobody says that.
> I certainly don't. What I DO say is that
> - MY code contains n+k
Why should this matter? The contents of your code are not relevant to
the future of Haskell. n = 1 is meaningless.
> Is there a simple way to download everything from Hackage?
One would need to write a script to do this.
Regards,
John A. De Goes
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