[Haskell-cafe] Fwd: Backward compatibility

[Darren Grant]

Just to be clear,  is WASH beyond redemption,  or would it be worth
reviving again? If so,  why?

Cheers,
Darren
On 2013-05-05 1:48 PM, "Alberto G. Corona" <agocorona at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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