[Haskell-cafe] How best to deal with Monoid/Applicative changes in 7.10 in a backwards-compatable way

[Doug Burke]

I'm trying out the ghc 7.10 RC and am seeing lots of warnings about Monoid
and some symbols from Control.Applicative - e.g.

    The import of ‘Data.Monoid’ is redundant
      except perhaps to import instances from ‘Data.Monoid’
    To import instances alone, use: import Data.Monoid()

For now I'm wrapping the import with some CPP so that it will still compile
with older ghc versions (and a probably-pointless attempt to be
non-ghc-specific, since I have never tested my code with other compilers):

#if (!defined(__GLASGOW_HASKELL__)) || (__GLASGOW_HASKELL__ < 710)
import Control.Applicative (Applicative(pure), (<$>), (<*>))
import Data.Monoid (Monoid(..))
#else
import Control.Applicative ((<$>))
#endif

Is this the best way? Am I missing something really obvious?

Thanks,
Doug
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