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

[Isaac Dupree]

On 11/06/10 10:26, Ross Paterson wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 02:17:03PM +0100, Johan Tibell wrote:
>> This is a call for consensus for the following proposal:
>>
>>      http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/Proposals/transformers
>>
>> Are there any unresolved concerns?
>
> Brent Yorgey's report raises one: the following functions, defined in
> the transformers package as replacements for data constructors for the
> base monads, should probably be re-exported by the new mtl:

People probably have local variables named "cont" and "state" in their 
code already.  Especially in code that uses the Cont and State monads 
already, I imagine.  Well, I suppose we can live with that.

-Isaac