Proposal: In haskell-src, add Functor, Applicative, Monad, and Monoid instances for ParseResult

Yitzchak Gale gale at sefer.org
Sat Jun 13 21:09:34 EDT 2009


Niklas Broberg wrote:
>>> Why use haskell-src...? :-)

I wrote:
>> In this case, I needed simplicity, and I didn't need the
>> extensions.

Neil Mitchell wrote:
> I use haskell-src-exts as a matter of course, not for the extensions
> but for the fact that its maintained, released, disjoint from base and
> has always served my needs brilliantly. Extensions aren't something I
> really even considered, but they seem to turn out to be useful now and
> then.

All points well taken, thanks.

In this particular case, the additional complexity of the Syntax types in
haskell-src-exts would cause a bit more pain, but it is still an option.

Regards,
Yitz


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