Haskell Platform Proposal: add transformers and revise the mtl package to depend on it

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 16 September 2010 21:43, Felipe Lessa <felipe.lessa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:23 AM, Ross Paterson <ross at soi.city.ac.uk> wrote:
>> If this proposal is accepted, monads-fd would be obsoleted and
>> transformers would be turned over to community control (like the current
>> mtl package).
>
> So, if this proposal is accepted, then we would have:
>
> - transformers on HP.
> - mtl on HP (depending on transformers).
> - monads-tf on Hackage (depending on transformers).
>
> Wouldn't it be better to obsolete mtl and have:
>
> - transformers on HP.
> - monads-fd on HP (depending on transformers).
> - monads-tf on Hackage (depending on transformers).
>
> The naming would be more consistent.

I'm leaning towards this solution for just this reason.  Apart from
the fact that the current mtl uses FDs, is there any reason why
monads-fd is preferred over monads-tf?

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