<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Herbert Valerio Riedel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hvr@gnu.org" target="_blank">hvr@gnu.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">...btw, do we actually know which (or how many) packages are affected?</blockquote></div><br>I believe at least one of my packages will be affected, and even if we go and run the analysis on Hackage (I expect only a handful of packages to run into this API change), there's the "dark matter" not visible to us in all of the commercial Haskell codebases to consider. Naming is important, but IMO not so important that you need to break working user programs to hang onto a preferred name, at least not without a deprecation cycle of at least one major GHC version.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div>G</div>-- <br>Gregory Collins <<a href="mailto:greg@gregorycollins.net" target="_blank">greg@gregorycollins.net</a>>
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