There is nothing to stop an library author doing exactly this, and it might even be useful for some people (personally I'm going to stick to haskell-src-exts, because it's a brilliant library). However, I don't think we should make it official or part of the standard. I've found plenty of HSE/GHC parsing differences in my work, and my suspicion is that several of them are probably also present in haskell-src. I also don't want the Haskell Prime Committee to take on the jobs of library maintainership or implementation, those are best kept elsewhere.
Thanks, Neil On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Yitzchak Gale <g...@sefer.org> wrote: > I propose that the haskell-src package be renamed > haskell20nn-src for each revision Haskell 20nn of > the standard, and be made an official machine-readable > component of the standard. > > This has the following advantages: > > 1. It would require almost no extra work, because > haskell-src already exists, and syntax changes, if > any, will be very minimal for each revision. > > 2. For the portion of the standard that it covers, > any ambiguity that might creep into the human-readable > standard document would be resolved. > > 3. It would serve as a basic machine-verification tool > which is easily extensible. > > 4. As a side-effect, the haskell-src package would be > continually maintained. The package is useful in its > own right as a much lighter-weight version of haskell-src-exts. > It is much easier to use when an application does > not require full support of all of Haskell's syntax. > > This proposal is a natural extension of a proposal > raised on the libraries mailing list in the context of > the Haskell Platform: Ian Lynagh proposed that the > current haskell-src-exts be renamed haskell-src > (and included in the Haskell Platform, as suggested > by Sterling Clover), and that the current haskell-src > be renamed to haskell98-src (and removed from the > Platform). > > The libraries subthread is here: > > http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2010-November/015018.html > > Thanks, > Yitz > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-prime mailing list > Haskell-prime@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime > _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime