Proposal: merge either into transformers

[Edward Kmett]

The problem with Data.Functor.Sum is that Data.Monoid exports Sum. While I
don't think we should try to globally avoid all conflicts, I don't think we
should go out of our way to pick up a conflict we don't have to have.


On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Mario Blažević <mblazevic at stilo.com> wrote:

> On 12-12-10 01:57 PM, Edward Kmett wrote:
>
>> There is Data.Functor.Coproduct in comonad-transformers
>> (http://hackage.haskell.org/**packages/archive/comonad-**
>> transformers/3.0/doc/html/**Data-Functor-Coproduct.html<http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/comonad-transformers/3.0/doc/html/Data-Functor-Coproduct.html>
>> )
>> which could be moved.
>>
>> I never really liked having it in the comonad-transformers package
>> anyways.
>>
>
>         There is also Cgm.Data.Functor.Sum in cognimeta-utils, though it
> doesn't come with a Functor instance for some reason. I think I prefer
> Data.Functor.Sum to Data.Functor.Coproduct. There may be more occurrences
> in Hackage, hiding under less obious names.
>
>         I presume this addition to Transformers would require a new
> proposal?
>
>
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