Proposal for stand-alone deriving declarations?

[Ross Paterson]

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 12:30:31PM -0600, Brian Smith wrote:
> I think it is difficult to discuss things via a Wiki.

Yes, a mailing list is much better for discussion.

In response to your point about duplicate derived instances, yes, it
would make derived instances different from explicit ones, but as I've
argued before, I think it's unavoidable:

http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-prime/2006-October/thread.html#1739

If you accept that this is the primary use of the standalone feature,
such conflicts will happen all the time.