On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Richard Eisenberg <e...@cis.upenn.edu> wrote:
> > This is a very good point. We would want to bless some API that would > remain stable. Then, clients that go around that API get what they deserve. > A starting point for the stable API would be today's template-haskell (less > some unsafe features, like exposing NameG). > As a data point, in a couple of packages I wind up forced into using mkNameG_v and mkNameG_tc in order to avoid incurring a dependency on a stage2 compiler today. Removing them would force me to drop support for stage1-only platforms offered by some linux distributions. If you're going to drop support for it, please consider offering me some horrible back door to get at the functionality that I can't currently replace by other means. -Edward
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