[Haskell-cafe] The instability of Haskell libraries

[Ross Paterson]

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 08:48:07PM +1000, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
> Ross Paterson <ross at soi.city.ac.uk> writes:
> > Same major version: any code using fully explicit imports that worked
> > with the old version will work with the new version, in the same way.
> 
> By this you mean that additions have been made?

According to these definitions, adding exports would require a new
minor version, while adding instances of already exported classes
and types would require a new major version.