Haskell Platform proposal: Add the vector package
Henning Thielemann
lemming at henning-thielemann.de
Thu Jul 5 13:05:14 CEST 2012
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, Simon Marlow wrote:
> The choice to use the module boundary was made for pragmatic reasons - it
> reduces complexity in the implementation, but also it makes things much
> simpler from the programmer's point of view. The programmer has a clear idea
> where the boundary lies: in a Safe module, they can only import other
> Safe/Trustworthy modules. The Safe subset is a collection of modules, not
> some slice of the contents of all modules. The Haddock docs for a module
> only have to say in one place whether the module is considered safe or not.
I found it quite natural to have the safety property per module. Maybe I
am too much used to Modula-3.
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