[Haskell-cafe] Re: Transformers versus monadLib versus...

[Ertugrul Soeylemez]

Yves Parès <limestrael at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Fragmenting Hackage is bad.  But on the other hand I don't see why I
> > should stick with the inconvenient mtl.  Open source software is all
> > about choice, and as long as the mtl fails to provide the same
> > flexibility and convenience, I won't use it.  Combined with the fact
> > that fixing it would break existing packages, it appears like I
> > won't go back to the mtl ever.
>
> So tell me how you do when you have to use a package which relies on
> mtl's transformers?
> You re-develop the package?

So far this has never been a problem.  These packages always came along
with custom running and access functions.

If that wasn't the case, well, I would choose the ugly way through
qualified imports, but this has never happened to me:

  import qualified Control.Monad.Trans as MTL
  import MonadLib


Greets,
Ertugrul


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