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Subject:    Re: [Haskell-cafe] [core libraries] Dropping support for NHC98 and old GHC from containers
From:       Giacomo Tesio <giacomo () tesio ! it>
Date:       2016-04-26 7:02:52
Message-ID: CAHL7psHnk18F_7LF6V=Wa+o-0U47Prsd3FNRXhhz15nPC3fBJA () mail ! gmail ! com
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2016-04-26 5:39 GMT+02:00 Edward Kmett <ekmett@gmail.com>:

> We did a similar cleanup pass on base a year or two back.
>
> No objection here.
>

If base is not compatible with nhc98 anymore, there's a little point to
preserve such compatibility on containers.

Still, for less fortunate operative systems, it would be nice to have
somewhere a list of modules/version actually compatible with Haskell 98.
Also, for future reference, it would be nice if such change is introduced
as a single-change version, so that we know it doesn't introduce or remove
any other functionality except the compatibility.



> Code you can't test is kinda hard to maintain forever.
>

I wonder what can prevent code to be tested with a different compiler...


Giacomo

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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">2016-04-26 5:39 \
GMT+02:00 Edward Kmett <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ekmett@gmail.com" \
target="_blank">ekmett@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" \
style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid \
rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">We did a similar cleanup pass on base a year or \
two back.<br> <br>
No objection here.<br></blockquote><div><br>If base is not compatible with nhc98 \
anymore, there&#39;s a little point to preserve such compatibility on \
containers.<br><br>Still, for less fortunate operative systems, it would be nice to \
have somewhere a list of modules/version actually compatible with Haskell \
98.<br></div><div>Also, for future reference, it would be nice if such change is \
introduced as a single-change version, so that we know it doesn&#39;t introduce or \
remove any other functionality except the compatibility.<br><br></div><div>  \
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px \
solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">

Code you can&#39;t test is kinda hard to maintain \
forever.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I wonder what can prevent code to be \
tested with a different \
compiler...<br><br><br></div><div>Giacomo<br></div></div><br></div></div>



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