Re: Type families status

2010-12-13 Thread John Meacham
FWIW, I am forgoing functional dependencies and going straight to type families/associated types in jhc. They are easier to implement and much cleaner IMHO. John On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > Yes, I think type families are here to stay. > > There is no formal

RE: Type families status

2010-12-13 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Yes, I think type families are here to stay. There is no formal policy about GHC extensions. Generally speaking, I regard GHC as a "laboratory" in which to test ideas, which militates in favour of putting things in so that people can try them. Once in they are hard to take out again (linear i