[Haskell-cafe] Backward compatibility

[Edward Kmett]

So basically it boiled down drop the haskell98 package dependency and use
the new exception system, and import the right things to avoid the use of
the no longer exported Prelude catch?


On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Niklas Hambüchen <mail at nh2.me> wrote:

> While I certainly enjoy the discussion, how about addressing one of the
> original problems:
>
> On 02/05/13 13:27, Adrian May wrote:
> > I just tried to use Flippi. It broke because of the syntax change so I
> > tried WASH. I couldn't even install it because of the syntax change.
>
> I just fixed that in https://github.com/nh2/flippi (note that I have
> never seen this code before nor even known about it).
>
>
> https://github.com/nh2/flippi/commit/5e2fa93f82b4123d0d5b486209c3b722c4c1313d
>
> Had to delete 5 imports and convert one time value.
>
> Took me around 3 minutes.
>
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