[Haskell-cafe] Re: Hoogle and Network.Socket

Jonathan Cast jonathanccast at fastmail.fm
Thu Feb 26 09:30:01 EST 2009


On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 13:52 +0100, Daniel Fischer wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 26. Februar 2009 13:41 schrieb John Lato:
> > I didn't phrase this well.  In the context of my argument, "design for
> > cross-platform" meant "avoid platform-limiting choices in the absence
> > of any compelling reasons otherwise", which really isn't the same.
> 
> 
> Could we sum that up as:
> 
> "Do not knowingly make your code unportable unless you have a good reason to"?
> 
> Are there any objections to that maxim?

Actually, yes.  But it's quite off-topic, not just as per thread but as
per mailing list.

jcc




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