If every implementor got to choose what subset of the standard to implement that all code would have have to written in the implemented intersection. I think that's a terrible idea. The Haskell98 standard was set so there would be a baseline that people could rely on.
When I implemented Haskell (both times) there were odds and ends that I really hated (some of those feelings have changed), but I did it anyway. -- Lennart On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Bulat Ziganshin <bulat.zigans...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Jon, > > Monday, April 20, 2009, 1:59:07 PM, you wrote: > >> 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. > > if you really believe in that you said, you can spend your own time > adding its support :) i never seen n+k patterns in real code so i > understand developers that don't want to waste time just to compliant > standard even if their efforts will be never really used > > > > -- > Best regards, > Bulat mailto:bulat.zigans...@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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
