RFC: Adding a Hashable type class and HashMap/HashSet data types to HP

[Ian Lynagh]

On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 02:53:03PM +0000, Maciej Piechotka wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 10:48 +0100, Gregory Collins wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > An issue that needs to be resolved is: "Where should this change go?" We have a
> > couple of options:
> > 
> >   a) Bring http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hashable into the platform
> > 
> >   b) Put the module into base -- probably a -1 for political/logistical reasons
> > 
> 
> I'd say base

I would suggest not putting it into base if it isn't necessary to do so.
It's much easier to merge things later (if desired) than to split them
apart, and base is already far too big.


Thanks
Ian