<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 3:59 AM, harry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:voldermort@hotmail.com" target="_blank">voldermort@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">Dan Doel <dan.doel <at> <a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
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> However, another thing to consider is that getting rid of data type<br>
contexts was accepted into the language standard.<br>
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</div>... which means that implementers should be free to "fix" data type contexts<br>
however they like, as they are now complier extensions which won't conflict<br>
with standard Haskell.</blockquote><div><br></div><div style>Except that people do build older programs with newer Haskell compilers, and it's bad to "repurpose" a syntax like that because it leads to strange errors.</div>
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