ANN: time-extras 1.1.4
Ian Lynagh
igloo at earth.li
Tue Dec 29 06:30:03 EST 2009
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:03:02AM +0000, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
>> I don't think we can say that we must restrict ourselves to the
>> Haskell
>> 2010 language extensions when the base package is using Rank2Types in
>> its public API.
>
> ... and this is one of the great flaws of the base package.
>
> Because of such non-standard extensions, the 'base' package API is _not_
> universally available across all compilers. I strongly believe that
> 'base' is a misnomer, and we should consider hiding 'base' altogether,
> and creating a 'real-base' package that is (a) compliant to the language
> standards,
I think it would be more efficient to achieve this by working on
standardising the necesary extensions for H'2011.
Thanks
Ian
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