2012/11/30 Gábor Lehel <illiss...@gmail.com>: > Well, I'm not so sure it's a great idea to just bake "what GHC > does at this moment" (for any particular extension) into the > standard without really thinking about it. Even then, you have > to figure out, in great detail, what GHC does, and write it > all down! That's not negligible effort, either. And the > alternative is to also publicly discuss and hash all of it out > down to the little tiny gritty stuff. But wanting to write a > new standard (big effort!) just to get rid of some pragmas and > make people feel better (small payoff!) feels like a mismatch > to me.
It is a large payoff, considering the thousands and thousands of people that it creates a small payoff for: people writing Haskell, people learning Haskell, people teaching Haskell. A standard is a lot of effort for a handful of people. -- Jason Dusek pgp // solidsnack // C1EBC57DC55144F35460C8DF1FD4C6C1FED18A2B _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
