2012/11/30 Gábor Lehel <illiss...@gmail.com>: > Executive summary: We don't need a new standard right now. If > people don't think it's worth their while to work on it, > they're probably right. New, competing implementations might > be valuable. If we have them, there will be demand for a > standard, making decisions about it will be easier, and it > will probably be better.
It would be nice for there to be a new standard so that many features in GHC -- such as overloaded strings, rank n types, MPTCs, &c. -- were enabled by default without any pragmas. This standardization process amounts to "endorsement of existing features" which seems like not a bad process at all. It makes the standard descriptive rather than predictive. -- Jason Dusek pgp // solidsnack // C1EBC57DC55144F35460C8DF1FD4C6C1FED18A2B _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
