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Benjamin Franksen  
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 More options Jan 11 2007, 4:07 pm
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From: Benjamin Franksen <benjamin.frank...@bessy.de>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:07:35 UTC
Local: Thurs, Jan 11 2007 4:07 pm
Subject: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Monad Set via GADT
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Jim Apple wrote:
> On 1/3/07, Roberto Zunino <zun...@di.unipi.it> wrote:
>> 1) Why the first version did not typececk?
> 1) Class constraints can't be used on pattern matching. They ARE
> restrictive on construction, however. This is arguably bug in the
> Haskell standard. It is fixed in GHC HEAD for datatypes declared in
> the GADT way, so as not to break H98 code:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cvs.all/29458/match=...

To quote from there: "I think this is stupid, but it's what H98 says."

Maybe it is time to consider it deprecated to follow the Haskell 98
standard /to the letter/. The above is an example where the default
(without flags) should (arguably) be the 'fixed' standard. We would need an
equivalent of gcc's -pedantic flag, meaning "Follow the Haskell 98 standard
to the letter, even on issues where the standard is generally considered
bad".

I hope this will be handled in a better way with Haskell'. It should be
possible to revise the standard (every few years or so, /very/
conservatively i.e. no extensions, etc) so that we can eliminate 'bugs'
from the language spec.

Cheers
Ben

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