[Haskell-cafe] Fwd: Backward compatibility

Alberto G. Corona agocorona at gmail.com
Sun May 5 22:46:23 CEST 2013


The case of WASH is a pity. Architecturally It was more advanced that many
recent haskell web frameworks.  The package would have been a success with
little changes in the DSL syntax.

I suspect that there are many outstanding packages with great ideas
abandoned, like WASH



2013/5/5 Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>

> 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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