portability of Data.ByteString.Lazy

[Ross Paterson]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 12:28:33PM +0000, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> Ross Paterson <ross at soi.city.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > > > Data.ByteString.Lazy defines ByteString as a type synonym, and
> > > > then uses that in instances, which isn't permitted by Haskell 98. 
> 
> I recently sent some patches to the fps package, to enable it to build
> with nhc98.  They simply change these instance decls to use the original
> type name rather than the synonym.  (The original name was even in
> scope, so there was no compelling reason to use the synonym in the first
> place.)

There is the minor issue of which name appears in the Haddock docs.