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Re:Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word o... by tome on Monday February 18, 2019 @09:20AM (#19190687)
> no one writes the Haskell specified in the Haskell report anymore, because all the libraries you might want to use use one or more ghc-specific extensions

This is a bit of a misconception. One can still write Haskell98 whilst using a library that use a GHC-specific extension. The library doesn't (have to) force its consumers to use extensions too!

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Re:Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word o... by fiddlerwoaroof on Monday February 18, 2019 @10:09PM (#19196327)
I phrased that a bit wrong: my experience (from talking to the Haskellers in my company) is that Haskellers generally prefer to turn on a bunch of extensions when they write code. So, while you might be able to write pure Haskell98, it tends not to be idiomatic to do so.
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