Deprecating haskell98 module aliases

wren ng thornton wren at community.haskell.org
Mon Mar 8 15:36:30 EST 2010


Gwern Branwen wrote:
> See http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/640
> 
> It seems to me that a warning on using the 'haskell98' package
> wouldn't be a bad thing; those modules have since been split apart in
> better modules, the names are ever more unfamiliar, etc.
> 
> But Duncan thinks it merits discussion.

I'm all for the warnings. And regarding guest's comments, doesn't the 
Haskell 2010 standard[1] count as an "actual language standard"? If not, 
then what is it and why isn't it one?


[1] http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/2009-November/021750.html

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