I agree in principle; you should really implement the full Haskell98 if you claim to be a Haskell implementation. In the particular case of n+k I don't care, since I never use them and they are slated for removal in Hakell'.
-- Lennart On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Jon Fairbairn <jon.fairba...@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > Achim Schneider <bars...@web.de> writes: > >> Jon Fairbairn <jon.fairba...@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote: >> >>> a...@cs.uu.nl writes: >>> >>> > Utrecht Haskell Compiler -- first release, version 1.0.0 >>> > ======================================================== >>> > >>> > >>> > The UHC team is happy to announce the first public release of the >>> > Utrecht Haskell Compiler (UHC). UHC supports almost all Haskell98 >>> > features >>> >>> Why? Is there something about Haskell 98 that's hard to >>> implement? >>> >> Insanity. I doubt anyone is going to miss n+k patterns: > > That (taken with the followup from Richard O'Keefe saying he > does use them) underlines my point, really. What follows is > specific to Haskell, but the general point applies to most > languages I've encountered. > > I have no love for n+k patterns, but they are part of > Haskell98 -- and were the subject of protracted arguments > for and against them before the Report was finished (I was > against them, if I remember correctly). Any implementation > claiming to be of Haskell98 should have them, whether or not > the implementor likes them, because otherwise someone will > come along with a valid Haskell98 programme and it won't > compile, so they'll have to hack it around. This sort of > thing (and resulting #ifdef all over the place) wastes far > more programmer time in the end (assuming the compiler > becomes popular) than it would take to implement the > feature. > > It's not an implementor's place to make such decisions -- > they can legitimately say "this feature sucks" and tell the > next Haskell committee so. If they care enough about it, > they can lobby or get on that next committee, but the > arguments for n+k patterns /in Haskell98/ were done long > ago. > > > -- > Jón Fairbairn jon.fairba...@cl.cam.ac.uk > http://www.chaos.org.uk/~jf/Stuff-I-dont-want.html (updated 2009-01-31) > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
