On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Robert Dockins wrote: > The problem, of course, is that Haskell likes to tightly bind with the > libraries it uses (inlineing across modules and other optimizations). > So imaging if the "package" unit was a barrier to those kinds of > optimizations. Then, no knowledge of the internals of the package are > needed by importing modules, and "sufficently" compatable pacakges could > be drop in replacements, .so or .dll style.
This would mean that functions like 'map' and 'foldr' couldn't be unrolled because they are in the package of the standard functions? _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
