Haskell 2010: libraries

[Sittampalam, Ganesh]

Simon Marlow wrote:
> On 14/07/2009 15:04, Ian Lynagh wrote:

>> I'd suggest
>> 
>>      Haskell.V2010.Data.List (just re-exports from V2011 where
>>      possible) Haskell.V2010.Prelude   (just re-exports from V2011
>>      where possible)      Haskell.V2011.Data.List
>> Haskell.V2011.Prelude 
>> 
>> with the implicit Prelude import being changed to
>>      Haskell.V<version>.Prelude
>> where<version>  is that latest the compiler supports, unless you say
>> e.g. -XHaskell2010.
> 
> I find this rather jarring, because it moves versioning from where it
> should be (in the package metadata) to where it shouldn't be (in the
> module names).  

I'd say that versioning of standards is rather different from versioning
of packages, which makes it less jarring, but yes, it doesn't feel very
nice and it would make porting code forwards annoying.

> But there's a solution: we could remove the "standard" modules from
> base, and have them only provided by haskell-std (since base will
> just be a re-exporting layer on top of base-internals, this will be
> easy to do).  Most packages will then have dependencies that look
> like    

But this precludes the kind of changes to those modules that Ian
described as having happened in the last few years.

Ganesh

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