Lennart always says he’s going to work on it, but he’s a busy man and nothing 
has actually happened.

It’s a pretty easy feature to implement I think.

Simon

From: ghc-devs [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sean Leather
Sent: 28 August 2015 06:40
To: Ben Gamari
Cc: GHC developers
Subject: Re: Planning for the 7.12 release

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Ben Gamari wrote:
These items are a bit less certain but may make it in if the authors
push forward quickly enough,


    * Support for Type Signature Sections, allowing you to write (:: ty)
      as a shorthand for (\x -> x :: ty).

Once Lennart convinced me of the usefulness of this [1], I've been finding 
plenty of places where I wish I had it. Who's working on it? What's the status? 
Is there a ticket for it?

Regards,
Sean

[1] http://augustss.blogspot.com/2014/04/a-small-haskell-extension.html
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