PolyKinds in transformers

Jake McArthur jake.mcarthur at gmail.com
Sun Feb 10 19:52:10 CET 2013


On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Ross Paterson <ross at soi.city.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 11:50:29AM -0500, Jake McArthur wrote:
> > I realize that transformers is intended to be portable, but I was
> wondering if
> > it would be crazy to use the PolyKinds extension for compilers that
> support it.
> > As long as nothing is added to transformers that depends on it, it
> should not
> > break compatibility with other compilers, and it would make a lot of
> types more
> > generally useful for GHC >= 7.6.
> >
> > Also, is there a mailing list I should be sending this to?
>
> Which ones would be more general?
>

The following transformers types would be more general with PolyKinds
enabled:

* Backwards
* ContT
* IdentityT
* ReaderT
* Compose
* Constant
* Product
* Reverse


> I guess libraries at haskell.org would be the best mailing list.
>

Alright, I'm including the libraries list.

- Jake
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