Proposal: Use time rather than old-time in directory

[Brandon Moore]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Ashley Yakeley <ashley at semantic.org>
> To: Bas van Dijk <v.dijk.bas at gmail.com>
> Cc: "libraries at haskell.org" <libraries at haskell.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 12:45 PM
> Subject: Re: Proposal: Use time rather than old-time in directory
> 
> On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 19:42 +0200, Bas van Dijk wrote:
>>  > I could unexpose everything besides Data.Time, I guess.
>> 
>>  But that would still leave it orphaned.
> 
> I don't think so? One would not be able to import any type from time
> without also importing all its class instances.

It would avoid any possibility of clients defining conflicting instances
of their own, but it would still be an orphan


http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/separate-compilation.html

Visiting one extra module (if it could even be avoided) probably isn't so bad.


Brandon.