time library dependencies

Ashley Yakeley ashley at semantic.org
Wed Jun 3 11:48:33 EDT 2009


On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 11:26 +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> On 03/06/2009 08:33, Ashley Yakeley wrote:
> > wren ng thornton wrote:
> >> Yeah, orphan instances are bad.
> >
> > Why?
> >
> > I already use private orphan modules within the package, though the
> > package does not externally expose any orphan instances.
> 
> How can you have private orphan instances?  The only "private" orphan 
> instances are those where the type or class is also private, is that 
> what you mean?

I don't have any private orphan instances. However I have orphan modules
(as defined in
<http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/separate-compilation.html#orphan-modules>) that are private.

-- 
Ashley Yakeley



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