foldable flexible bridges (putting foldable+traversable in prelude) Re: Burning bridges

[Malcolm Wallace]

On 21 May 2013, at 06:28, Carter Schonwald wrote:

> of course things will break. Things also break in easily fixable ways every major ghc version (and that doesn't stop each new GHC major version from being progressively more awesom). And thats ok. 

Actually, that is not OK.  The continual breakage of (almost all) libraries, every time there is a new release of GHC, is one of the most frustrating things about Haskell these days.  It really shouldn't happen.  Other Haskell compilers (such as there are) have never demonstrated this kind of instability - it is a big flaw in the close architectural linkage of ghc with the base package.

I long for the day when new versions of ghc are released, and my software continues to work *without change*.

Regards,
    Malcolm