Proposed annotation system + dependency issue

[Ian Lynagh]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 06:06:03PM +0100, Max Bolingbroke wrote:
> 
> (http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Annotations).

When you say
    {-# ANN f id 1 #-}
this means you are attaching (id 1) to f, right?

I think that that syntax is very confusing. I'm not sure what I'd prefer
though. Maybe parentheses, analogous to those in
    instance C (Maybe a)

> binary-package dependency issue I outline briefly above?

I think GHC depending on packages like binary, utf8-string etc, rather
than reinventing or copying wheels, would be a good thing.


Thanks
Ian