[Haskell-cafe] Please add instance Semigroup Text

[Don Stewart]

Getting stuff into the HP is a different problem, and something I'm
working on addressing in coming weeks... stay tuned.

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Yitzchak Gale <gale at sefer.org> wrote:
>>
>> You are quite right. These should really be defined in their
>> respective packages. I don't think it's too onerous for them
>> to add a dependency on semigroups, even before you
>> reverse the few lightweight dependencies that semigroups has.
>
> Unfortunately, the semigroups package will have to go into the Platform
> before either text or bytestring can make use of it. I think that would be
> great to have, but the getting from here to there is not necessarily fun.
> _______________________________________________
> Haskell-Cafe mailing list
> Haskell-Cafe at haskell.org
> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
>
>