[Haskell-cafe] The instability of Haskell libraries

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Apr 26, 2010, at 09:33 , John Goerzen wrote:
> It would, however, be nice if the language allowed you to override  
> default instances with the code in your own package.


Many other languages refer to this kind of thing as "monkey patching"  
and warn against it because of the problems it causes.

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