[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: parallel-2.0.0.0

[Henning Thielemann]

Simon Marlow schrieb:
> On 19/11/2009 01:14, Henning Thielemann wrote:
>>
>> 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?

Usually you will not apply a strategy as function to a value. A newtype
would prevent you from doing so accidentally. But since the definition
of Strategy has changed, my objection might no longer be valid ...