| Ashley:
| What is an orphan instance, and why do we care about them?
They are documented in the GHC manual
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/separate-compilation.html#orphan-modules
| Wolfram:
| I just would like to point out that there is nothing inherently bad about
| wh
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I just would like to point out that there is nothing inherently bad about
> what GHC calls ``orphan instances''.
>
> From a code structuring point of view,
> I frequently ``consider orphan'' instances
> useful for separation of concerns.
The problem
