<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 16:20, Yitzchak Gale <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gale@sefer.org">gale@sefer.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div id=":et">As I type this, Edward himself has come out in favor of the<br>
original proposal, thus breaking all code based on his own<br>
package. So I guess that settles it.</div></blockquote></div><br>He quite reasonably chose compatibility with the existing ecosystem over dependency on a massive restructuring. Not that that restructuring is a bad idea, but without better language support it's simply not worth the effort.<div>
<br></div><div>Speaking of which, has anyone formally proposed the class/instance alias stuff for GHC? If so, has anyone stepped in to implement it? Having the tools to actually make this kind of change would be helpful.<br clear="all">
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