Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Rewriting a famous library and using the same name: pros and consf

2010-06-08 Thread Jason Dagit
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:28 PM, John Lato jwl...@gmail.com wrote: From: Stephen Tetley stephen.tet...@gmail.com Hello all While new libraries develop at pace, their documentation rarely does; so I'd have to disagree with John's claim that re-naming libraries makes development by new

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Rewriting a famous library and using the same name: pros and consf

2010-06-08 Thread Ivan Miljenovic
On 9 June 2010 12:11, Jason Dagit da...@codersbase.com wrote: Or write translator tools for upgrading to the new API :)  Pipe dream?  Maybe. Too an extent, yes: the types are more generalised so it's going to be difficult to do automatic translations. However, Thomas has demonstrated that you