StandaloneDeriving always struck me as a really heavyweight way to write those
instances. EmptyDataDecls in many ways should have been in all along while
StandaloneDeriving is a rather peculiar ghc'ism.
I'm personally in favor of just making EmptyDataDecls "work better" here.
-Edward
On Aug 14
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Richard Eisenberg wrote:
> My proposal below doesn't really give different behavior for EmptyDataDecls
> in the two scenarios… the available constructs are the same under either H98
> or H2010. It's just that the "distance" from the spec is different.
>
> Persona