[Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC survey results

2005-06-29 Thread Dinko Tenev
On 6/28/05, Jim Apple [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some people would like features removed (implicit parameters was mentioned a couple of times). Linear implicit parameters is a clear candidate for removal. I don't understand the motivation for this. Implicit parameters do weird things

[Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC survey results

2005-06-29 Thread Ketil Malde
Jim Apple [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: robert dockins wrote: Why remove a feature from a product? Why not, instead, just choose to not use it? Because the feature complicates the product, increases maintainance costs, and keeps the maintainers from working on other things people care more

[Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC survey results

2005-06-28 Thread John Meacham
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 11:30:04AM -0400, Jim Apple wrote: Some people would like features removed (implicit parameters was mentioned a couple of times). Linear implicit parameters is a clear candidate for removal. I don't understand the motivation for this. Implicit parameters do weird