On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 10:55:39AM -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > Okay, here's a tentative plan that will help to figure out the answer. I'll > build a fiddled base package that rewires the Monoid class to have (++) be the > binary operator, and mappend as a synonym for it. I'll import the Monoid (++) > into the Prelude. I'll see how much breaks. If that much builds smoothly, I'll > see how much of the rest of Hackage builds, both with and without this custom > base package. I'll follow up here with the results, along with a suggestion of > how acceptable I think the observed level of breakage is.
Generalizing (++) will break some Haskell 98 code, e.g. append = (++) I think that's a show-stopper. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe