[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: parallel-2.0.0.0

[Simon Marlow]

On 19/11/2009 01:14, Henning Thielemann wrote:
>
> On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Simon Marlow wrote:
>
>> I've just uploaded parallel-2.0.0.0 to Hackage. If you're using
>> Strategies at all, I'd advise updating to this version of the parallel
>> package. It's not completely API compatible, but if you're just using
>> the supplied Strategies such as parList, the changes should be
>> relatively minor.
>
> Are there plans to turn Strategy and Done into individual types rather
> than type synonyms? Or is there any benefit from using type synonyms?

Done is gone, so to speak.

Let me turn the question round: what benefits do you see from turning 
Strategy into a newtype?

Cheers,
	Simon