The base library and GHC 6.10

Ross Paterson ross at soi.city.ac.uk
Sun Aug 31 08:25:53 EDT 2008


On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 01:16:33PM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 01:10:56PM +0100, Ross Paterson wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 01:01:34PM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> > > OK; so I guess that means the whole Data.Generics.Basics module should
> > > stay in base.
> > 
> > Should Data.Generics.Instances (an orphanage) be folded into
> > Data.Generics.Basics?
> 
> Sounds good to me.

The name Data.Generics.Basics identifies it as the basic part of the
generics library.  If it's to be presented as a general class, perhaps
the module should be renamed (with re-exports under the old names in syb).
Data.Data?


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