On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 03:10:41PM +0100, Alastair Reid wrote: > > >> That also makes it possible to cut about 100 lines from Hugs.Base, > >> and remove some #ifndef __HUGS__ stuff from fptools/libraries. > > > ..forcing all users to pay for this very slight internal improvement > > by way of increased startup times each time Hugs is > > loaded. Didn't/doesn't look like a Win to me. > > I think bringing the structure closer to the Haskell Prelude and the > Hierarchial libraries and having things more modular is probably the > Right Thing in the long term (for all the usual software engineering > reasons) but we're probably shaking things up enough that we should go > with a relatively monolithic Prelude at first.
Quite so -- that's why I suggested doing this after the release, when it can be done more comprehensively. > (I'm particularily worried that those bits you were loading are from > the hierarchial module world - what's the story in the old hierarchial > world?) The old library setup is unaffected (same for Sigbjorn's version). _______________________________________________ Cvs-hugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-hugs
