Re: Standard libraries

2007-11-15 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 10:54:28AM +0300, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: > > second, every year Haskell committee should decide which libraries of > currently Hackage-available are most widely used, portable and free, > and call this set a "Haskell- standard libraries", together with > versions inspec

Re[2]: Standard libraries

2007-11-15 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Ian, Thursday, November 15, 2007, 5:34:59 PM, you wrote: >> H2008 libs: base 3.0, FPS 1.0, Binary 1.0 >> H2009 libs: base 3.0, FPS 2.0, SuperBinary 0.1 >> >> With above-mentioned versioning policy, this means that any >> "FPS 1.0.*" will comply to the H08 standard and this means that this

Haskell'2008

2007-11-15 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello haskell-prime, i propose to omit type functions/families from standard you are currently developing and leave only MPTC (without FDs) here reason: it not yet included in GHC. probably, it will be in 6.10 next fall. then we will need one more year to prove its usefulness and one more year to

Standard libraries

2007-11-15 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello haskell-prime, one more proposal is about standard libs. it is well known that today libs outweighs all other parts of modern language and work on their standardization will probably stall the whole Haskell-prime process. OTOH, languages like Java was grown due to their rich set of libraries