Prelude and Library Issues in Haskell 1.3

1995-02-09 Thread Alastair Reid
Currently, the Haskell language does not mention any libraries or facilities for using them. The standard prelude is meant to serve as a library but it lacks many important features. All Haskell implementations have begun to haphazardly include various libraries. However, these libraries have

Re: Process for Change

1995-02-09 Thread hudak-paul
Regarding "A Process for Change": Simon said: > I'm not sure we're ready yet to embark on a formal "let's > design Haskell 2.0" exercise. I favour something a bit more > informal, perhaps focussed round an annual workshop, in > which we explore design options. Then, when it's become > clear wh

Re: Happy New Year!

1995-02-09 Thread hudak-paul
Regarding standardization: My suggestion to standardize Haskell was not a near-term thing, but rather long-term; in particular there's no sense putting a lot of effort into standardizing 1.X if we know that 2.0 is less than a few years away. In any case, the process is tedious and is guaranteed