Hi Malcolm,
Withdrawing the packages from GHC's distribution is certainly a
possibility. We did briefly raise that point when we talked yesterday
too, but it wasn't discussed much.
Perhaps some others feel the same, but I imagine more people would be
OK with #2 above as opposed to eliminating it,
Hi Ryan,
Yes, that or one of the various superclass instance proposals would
probably solve this without too much grief, since we could simply
export Applicative, then automatically get an instance for it
afterwords at no cost.
This was very very briefly discussed yesterday, but I left it out of
