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

[Brandon Allbery]

We're already long past the point where an alternative Haskell compiler
needs to implement an ever-expanding list of extensions to work with large
and useful parts of Hackage.

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021, 05:32 Henning Thielemann <
lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:

>
> 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.
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