Elliot Cameron

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@treeowl What do we do if libraries list discussion dies down? At the very least I will submit a documentation patch, but I'd like to also do one of the...

I mentioned it in passing. I'll keep pushing. Thanks.

I suppose you would prefer that the existing ASCII drawing functions were never added and are only kept for backwards compat?

I understood the idea to mean: Move `Data.Map` to `Data.Map.Semigroup` and change the `Semigroup` instance to the one we prefer. Then in `Data.Map` export a `newtype` wrapper that uses `First`...

Or we could just not have `insert` at all. :D

That's a great idea but I think it's slightly off topic. Why can't containers have sensible instances and slowly obviate the need for packages that we all mostly regret must...

@jkarni What do you think?

Would it be difficult to add a combinator that could masquerade as a `QueryParam` but provide a default? ```haskell type Api = "test" :> (QueryParam "value" Int :?> 10) :>...

You can always add defaults in your handler. The question is: how do you capture that information in the API specification? I think we have two options, specify the default...

@fizruk I use Servant often to write specifications for other APIs. They don't tend to have the same values as Haskellers and they use defaults liberally. Not being able to...