Haskell 2010: libraries

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Jul 8, 2009, at 17:55 , Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 03:09:29PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
>>>
>>> 1. Just drop the whole libraries section from the report.  The
>>>    Report will still define the Prelude, however.
>>>
>>> I'm tending towards (1), mainly because it provides a clean break  
>>> and is
>>> likely to be the least confusing for users: they have one place to  
>>> go
>>> looking for library documentation.
>
> instead, ghc bundled libs say it, replaced now by Haskell Platform  
> libs.
> but these are de-facto standards, and i think that Report should  
> support
> it by defining the same set as standard de-jure


Perhaps the real answer is that the Report should bless the Haskell  
Platform - not any specific version of it.  It occurs to me that the  
dependency might actually go the other way:  a Haskell Platform  
release specifies which versions of the Haskell standard it complies  
with.  (Including H98.)

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