Hi Ryan, Yes, that or one of the various superclass instance proposals would probably solve this without too much grief, since we could simply export Applicative, then automatically get an instance for it afterwords at no cost.
This was very very briefly discussed yesterday, but I left it out of the 'Possibilities' list here because it is simply contingent on too much work, and too much discussion, in too short a span of time. There have probably been a dozen proposals for this kind of functionality, and I don't think any of them ever even got to the implementation stage. Unless someone has a hidden, ready-to-go patch with these features and it'll be committed very very soon (which I unfortunately doubt), I just don't think it's realistic to consider these approaches as solutions right now. On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Ryan Trinkle <[email protected]> wrote: > Would something like John Meacham's class alias proposal > (http://repetae.net/recent/out/classalias.html) help alleviate this problem? > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Brandon Allbery <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Malcolm Wallace <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> How about doing the honest thing, and withdrawing both packages in >>> ghc-7.10? Haskell'98 is now 15 years old, and the 2010 standard was never >>> really popular anyway. >> >> >> There are apparently educators using both, although they're not used much >> if at all in production. >> >> -- >> brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine >> associates >> [email protected] >> [email protected] >> unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad >> http://sinenomine.net >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users > -- Regards, Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/ _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
