Haskell Platform call for consensus: add transformers and revise the mtl package to depend on it

[Ross Paterson]

On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 04:17:05PM +0100, Sebastiaan Visser wrote:
> Additionally, it would be very useful to have the MaybeT monad transformer included into mtl-2. 
> 
> While migrating my packages from transformers/monads-fd to the new mtl, the absence of MaybeT was the only problem I came across.

That would be going beyond the primary mission of replacing the existing
mtl, though (and transformers still exports MaybeT).