[Haskell-cafe] Arrays in base... (was: ... indexing lists)

[Henning Thielemann]

On Mon, 29 Mar 2021, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 10:58:49AM +0200, Henning Thielemann wrote:
>
>> Data.Array actually _was_ part of base-3.
>> 
>> However, I think we should split 'base' in more smaller parts rather than 
>> making it bigger.
>
> FWIW, I don't think that splitting base into multiple libraries would
> achieves much, it would likely raise the cost of coordinating
> versioning.

It would enable new Haskell compilers to implement some packages but not 
all.