Re: Deriving clauses for EmptyDataDecls [was: request for reviews for my first patch -- ticket 7401]

2013-08-14 Thread Edward A Kmett
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

Deriving clauses for EmptyDataDecls [was: request for reviews for my first patch -- ticket 7401]

2013-08-13 Thread Austin Seipp
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