[Haskell-cafe] Fwd: Backward compatibility

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Raphael Gaschignard <dasuraga at gmail.com>wrote:

> Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I feel like I've seen such "suggestions" in
> GHC errors before.
>
> If so, does that mean there's some sort of mechanism in the compiler
> already in place for such error recognition? Like some simple pattern
> stuff?  If not, I think that it might not be bad to consider this stuff
> (misused packaged, changed semantics that create compiler errors), and to
> put something into place for future modifications. This could make it a lot
> easier to deal with unmaintained code.
>

There's some very limited capability now; the GHC folks are tossing around
ideas for something more general like that.

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