Library proposal: Add System.Info.isWindows

Ian Lynagh igloo at earth.li
Wed Aug 15 13:44:57 EDT 2007


On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 06:05:41PM +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure it's possible to make it an instance of Data or Typeable is
> > it? Doesn't that require a dependency on the generics package but
> > System.Info is in the base package.
> 
> This is going to keep coming up, if we move the Data and Typeable classes out...

They can move to below most other packages, and for those few that have
to be lower down the instances can be put in the generics package.

This won't be happening for 6.8, though.


Thanks
Ian



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