The base library and GHC 6.10

Ashley Yakeley ashley at semantic.org
Mon Sep 1 17:30:12 EDT 2008


Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> Plan A:
> ·         The class Data is defined in ‘base’
> ·         The SYB library builds on it
> ·         Other libraries may build on it, independent of SYB
> 
> Plan B:
> ·         The class Data is defined in SYB
> ·         Other libraries that want reflection-like facilities must 
> build on SYB

What about a new "introspection" package containing Typeable, Dynamic 
and Data?

-- 
Ashley Yakeley


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