Simon Peyton Jones <simo...@microsoft.com> writes: > Actually that’s a good idea. > > Simon > > > From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Greg Weber > Sent: 28 August 2015 16:43 > To: Ben Gamari > Cc: GHC developers > Subject: Re: Planning for the 7.12 release > > Can we call this GHC 8.0 instead of 7.12 ? > Overloaded record fields and backtraces are a huge missing piece to > Haskell. It would be nice to have the bump to celebrate this occasion > and say that Haskell 8 is "ready". I have had a hard time seriously > recommending Haskell due to those last missing features. Now I should > be able to say without reservation: "use Haskell > 8; it is great!" > I was discussing this very matter yesterday with a few folks. I think we certainly have enough features in this release to do a major bump. I half-jokingly suggested that 8.0 should only come with Phase 2 of Richard's Dependent Haskell work, but I'm willing to settle for merely kind equality.
I think doing a major bump would be a great idea. Cheers, - Ben
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