On 15/07/2009 17:03, Mathias Stearn wrote:
Would it be possible for the language to require that implementations
support linking multiple versions of packages (at least base and
haskell-std) into a single running instance? That would solve the
issue of using two libs that depend on different versions.
The language definition says nothing about packages. As far as the
Haskell standard is concerned, a Haskell program is just a collection of
modules, including the Prelude.
I'm fairly keen to keep things simple like this. The packaging system
can be explained, without modifying the language standard, as a
transformation on module names (e.g. prefixing each module name with an
identifier representing the package instance it comes from).
Cheers,
Simon
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