[Haskell-cafe] Announcing containers 0.5.8.1

[Alexey Khudyakov]

On 31 August 2016 at 12:10, Henning Thielemann
<lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Aug 2016, David Feuer wrote:
>
>> Use BangPatterns throughout to reduce noise. This extension is now
>> required to compile containers.
>
> Btw. there is no strong need for BangPatterns. Instead of
>
>  ...
>
> Sometimes I hope that availability of portable libraries would help
> non-mainstream compilers to gain ground.
>
Compiler that doesn't support bang patterns (and half of GHC
extensions) cannot gain ground.