Haskell Platform call for consensus: add transformers and revise the mtl package to depend on it

[Sebastiaan Visser]

Is it really a problem that it goes beyond the primary mission?

If so, I'll make a separate proposal. And maybe I'll even setup the patch.

On Nov 6, 2010, at 4:37 PM, Ross Paterson wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 04:17:05PM +0100, Sebastiaan Visser wrote:
>> Additionally, it would be very useful to have the MaybeT monad transformer included into mtl-2. 
>> 
>> While migrating my packages from transformers/monads-fd to the new mtl, the absence of MaybeT was the only problem I came across.
> 
> That would be going beyond the primary mission of replacing the existing
> mtl, though (and transformers still exports MaybeT).
>