On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Manuel M T Chakravarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We should be careful about where we break existing code, and we should try to > support automatic translation of H98 to H' code, but any changes that we do > not make now will become even more difficult in the future when there is even > more Haskell code. Look at what is happening now already, industrial users > applying pressure on the committee to not change the language too much for > the sake of legacy code. A clear indication that anything we don't change > now, we will have to live with forever. > > Hence, anything that is *important* to change, we should change now. We > should mitigate the pain by having a H98 to H' translator and Haskell > compilers will surely support a Haskell98 compatibility mode as long as there > are enough users interested in such a feature. (This is not unlike the > transition from K&R C to ANSI C.)
For ($), automatic translation could be as simple as changing a couple module imports: import Prelude hiding (($)) import Haskell98 (($)) -- Steven Hazel [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
