> “Looks like someone went overboard.” All these things are basically bare minimum table stakes to do anything in the language at all, particularly enabling do

> “Looks like someone went overboard.” All these things are basically bare minimum table stakes to do anything in the language at all, particularly enabling dozens of compiler directives for language feature extensions. That is Haskell 101 practically, which is actually one of the hugest problems with the language. Saying this is “overboard” in Haskell is out of touch with the practical realities of using the language.