[Haskell-cafe] Guidelines for proposing library changes

[Henning Thielemann]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Malcolm Wallace wrote:

> Ross Paterson <ross at soi.city.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > I see you've deleted the bit about silence being taken as consent.
> > I think we need something like this, or at least a presumption that
> > the change will happen unless someone objects
> 
> Sometimes silence means "This idea is so crazy and useless that I don't
> even know where to begin in rebutting it".  The lack of any positive
> response should not lead to an automatic presumption that the idea is
> OK!

I agree explicitly. (not only by being quiet :-)