Proposal: Slim base-5 API package

[Bardur Arantsson]

On 2013-07-16 23:45, Henning Thielemann wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> 
>> I don’t think the plan is to have different implementations of stuff in
>> base at the same time. If different compilers (fay) replace the
>> base-implementing packages, then there is another implementation, but
>> that would never interfere with a definition on GHC. Or what scenario do
>> you have in mind?
> 
> I think his wish was to ensure that e.g. 'map' has the same type in GHC,
> fay, JHC and others, although it might be implemented differently (with
> foldr/build, or stream-fusion, or whatever).

Exactly!

(But perhaps I'm just a natural pessimist -- it may not matter much in
practice.)

Regards,