On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Wolfgang Jeltsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 24. April 2008 09:30 schrieb Lennart Augustsson: > > > Haskell has now reached the point where backwards compatibility is something > > that must be taken very seriously. > > Would you be opposed to a Haskell 2 which would break lots of things?
I would! No new language standard should break lots of things! It could break some things and should provide easy rewrite rules for code (or better yet a tool like Python's 2to3) to move from standard A to standard B for most of the things that break. _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
