On 2010-04-24, John Goerzen <jgoer...@complete.org> wrote: > It is a funny thing, because our fundamental libraries *have* had time > to settle down, in a sense. In another sense, I must say that the > innovations we have seen recently have been sorely needed and are > unquestionably a good thing.
Overall, agreed. It still makes it a pain to write to the current standard, because it is moving. > Unicode support in IO, This was "just" a bugfix in GHC, made more painful by people writing code dependent on the old behaviour. > I guess this is the price of failing to avoid > success, to borrow Simon's phrase. And again, not entirely bad. I despair that a better Numeric hierarchy will never make it into Haskell. -- Aaron Denney -><- _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe