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Re:Upcoming/proposed breaking changes to Haskell by throwaway81523 on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @01:18PM (#29256717)
Wow, some of these changes are pretty bold (eliminating ListT), and I would have off the top of my head guessed higher breakage levels than their estimate in some cases. E.g. does removing * as "type" break basically every GADT-syntax type definition everywhere?

It would be great if the entries in the list each included a very brief rationale for the change. Yes I can see there is a linked document for each one, but that is a lot more reading, when in many cases a one-liner is probably enough.

Re:Upcoming/proposed breaking changes to Haskell by icrbow on Thursday November 18, 2021 @10:37AM (#29266603)
ListT removal isn't bold. It was known for a long time that it needs to go and you should use one of the explicit alternatives instead.