[Haskell-cafe] Taking over `data-default-*`

[Adam Bergmark]

I think it would be better to just define a new typeclass with some added
constraints/documentation to clarify what the defaults mean in hasql. It
may end up being a copy of the Default class but I'd still prefer that.

Cheers,
Adam


On Thu, 10 May 2018 at 19:08 Viktor Dukhovni <ietf-dane at dukhovni.org> wrote:

>
>
> > On May 10, 2018, at 12:56 PM, Adam Bergmark <adam at bergmark.nl> wrote:
> >
> > I agree that you should avoid Data.Default, but there is still value in
> keeping the package up to date since it is well-used. I would appreciate it
> being actively maintained.
> >
> > I would however find it in bad taste to do a take over that immediately
> marks the package as deprecated...
>
> I use Hasql, and Hasql makes extensive use of Default to implement default
> encoders for various data types and tuples thereof.  Is there a better
> design
> that the author of Hasql should be using instead?
>
>
> https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hasql-1.1.1/docs/Hasql-Encoders.html#t:Value
>
> --
>         Viktor.
>
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