What Haskell users are actively maintaining or deving software using ghc <8

Joseph C. Sible josephcsible at gmail.com
Wed May 27 20:33:23 UTC 2020


On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 11:09 AM Henning Thielemann
<lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:
>
> I use 7.4.2 regularly. I like to avoid upgrading to 7.10 and above because
> I do not want to run into accidental bugs based on "maximum (a,b)".

IMO, avoiding "instance Foldable ((,) a)" isn't really a good reason
to not upgrade. You're giving up a lot of bug fixes and other
improvements just to avoid accidentally writing code that a linter
will easily catch.

Joseph C. Sible


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