Type design question

[Konrad Hinsen]

On Tuesday 29 July 2003 04:10, Andrew J Bromage wrote:

> There is no ISO standard Haskell.  There is Haskell 98, but that was
> deliberately designed to be a simpler language than what came before
> it, with no experimental features, partly to make teaching the language
> easier.  (You can't write a textbook for a moving target.)

True. However, for those who, like me, haven't yet seen much beyond textb=
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the textbook standard is the reference. It is not so easy to figure out w=
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extensions are experimental or satisfy a few persons' taste and which are=
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likely to stay.

> The situation with Haskell today is somewhat analogous to C++ _during_
> its standardisation process, when people were proposing all kinds of

I think that C++ was a lot worse, even the accepted features (e.g. templa=
tes)=20
didn't work the same with all compilers. All non-trivial code came with a=
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list of supported compilers.

Konrad.
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