😱 Thanks Sam and Noon! I'm obviously great at copy-pasting.
On Tue, 22 Aug 2023 at 14:36, Noon van der Silk <noons...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Arnaud, > > > For the sake of the future announcements, the first item should have > s/TypeApplications/TypeApplications/ > > I assume you mean "TypeApplications" instead of "TypeApplications", right? > > :D > > -- > Noon > > > On Tue, 22 Aug 2023 at 13:30, Arnaud Spiwack <arnaud.spiw...@tweag.io> > wrote: > >> Thanks Ben. >> >> For the sake of the future announcements, the first item should have >> s/TypeApplications/TypeApplications/ >> >> >> On Thu, 10 Aug 2023 at 17:09, Ben Gamari <b...@well-typed.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the availability of the >>> second alpha prerelease of GHC 9.8.1. Binary distributions, source >>> distributions, and documentation are available at >>> >>> https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.8.1-alpha2 >>> >>> GHC 9.8 will bring a number of new features and improvements, including: >>> >>> * Preliminary support the `TypeApplications` language extension >>> [type-binders], >>> allowing types to be bound in type declarations. >>> >>> * Support for the `ExtendedLiterals` extension, providing syntax for >>> non-word-sized numeric literals in the surface language >>> [extended-literals] >>> >>> * Improved rewrite rule matching behavior, allowing limited matching of >>> higher-order patterns >>> >>> * Better support for user-defined warnings by way of the `WARNING` >>> pragma [warnings] >>> >>> * The introduction of the new `GHC.TypeError.Unsatisfiable` >>> constraint, allowing more predictable user-defined type errors >>> [unsatisfiable] >>> >>> * Implementation of the export deprecation proposal, allowing module >>> exports to be marked with `DEPRECATE` pragmas [deprecated-exports] >>> >>> * The addition of build semaphore support for parallel compilation; >>> with coming support in `cabal-install` this will allow better use of >>> parallelism in multi-package builds [jsem] >>> >>> * More efficient representation of info table provenance information, >>> reducing binary sizes by over 50% in some cases when >>> `-finfo-table-map` is in use >>> >>> A full accounting of changes can be found in the [release notes]. >>> This alpha includes around two dozen bug-fixes relative to alpha 1. >>> >>> We would like to thank GitHub, IOG, the Zw3rk stake pool, >>> Well-Typed, Tweag I/O, Serokell, Equinix, SimSpace, the Haskell >>> Foundation, and other anonymous contributors whose on-going financial >>> and in-kind support has facilitated GHC maintenance and release >>> management over the years. Finally, this release would not have been >>> possible without the hundreds of open-source contributors whose work >>> comprise this release. >>> >>> As always, do give this release a try and open a [ticket] if you see >>> anything amiss. >>> >>> Happy compiling, >>> >>> ~ Ben >>> >>> >>> [type-binders]: >>> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0425-decl-invis-binders.rst >>> [extended-literals >>> <https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0425-decl-invis-binders.rst%5Bextended-literals>]: >>> >>> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0451-sized-literals.rst >>> [unsatisfiable]: >>> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0433-unsatisfiable.rst >>> [warnings]: >>> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0541-warning-pragmas-with-categories.rst >>> [deprecated-exports >>> <https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0541-warning-pragmas-with-categories.rst%5Bdeprecated-exports>]: >>> >>> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0134-deprecating-exports-proposal.rst >>> [jsem]: >>> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0540-jsem.rst >>> [release notes]: >>> https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.8.1-alpha2/docs/users_guide/9.8.1-notes.html >>> [ticket]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/new >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >>> To (un)subscribe, modify options or view archives go to: >>> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >>> Only members subscribed via the mailman list are allowed to post. >> >> >> >> -- >> Arnaud Spiwack >> Director, Research at https://moduscreate.com and https://tweag.io. >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> To (un)subscribe, modify options or view archives go to: >> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >> Only members subscribed via the mailman list are allowed to post. > > > > -- > Noon van der Silk, Ù† > > http://silky.github.io/ > > "My programming language is kindness." > -- Arnaud Spiwack Director, Research at https://moduscreate.com and https://tweag.io.
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