It is clear to everyone that all it would change is the *output* of GHCi's :info and Haddock-generated docs, right? There's no change whatsoever to what programs are accepted by GHC, or what they mean. On Dec 2, 2014 5:44 AM, "Simon Peyton Jones" <simo...@microsoft.com> wrote:
> The issue is not so much timing for 7.8.4 (it's a modes change to > pretty-printing only) but rather that it would make 7.8.4 behave > differently to 7.8.3 (although similarly to 7.10). We typically do not do > that. And the same would be true of 7.8.5. > > Simon > > | -----Original Message----- > | From: Gabor Greif [mailto:ggr...@gmail.com] > | Sent: 01 December 2014 15:53 > | To: Dr. ERDI Gergo > | Cc: Simon Peyton Jones; ghc-devs@haskell.org > | Subject: Re: Back-porting pattern synonym type signature syntax for GHC > | 7.8.4 [Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.4 Release Candidate 1] > | > | Gergö, > | > | even if it might be too late for 7.8.4, don't give up hope for 7.8.5 :-) > | > | Gabor > | > | > | On 11/29/14, Dr. ERDI Gergo <ge...@erdi.hu> wrote: > | > On Wed, 26 Nov 2014, Simon Peyton Jones wrote: > | > > | >> My instinct is that (a)-(c) overwhelm (d); i.e. let sleeping dogs lie. > | >> But what do others think? > | > > | > Just to give an idea of how limited the scope of this change would be, > | > I've went and implemented it, on the 'wip/pattern-synonym-sig-backport' > | > branch (of both GHC and Haddock). > | > _______________________________________________ > | > ghc-devs mailing list > | > ghc-devs@haskell.org > | > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > | > >
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