Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.4.2 released

2018-04-20 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Freitag, den 20.04.2018, 13:58 -0400 schrieb Ben Gamari: > Wolfgang Jeltsch writes: > > What about #15005? It is closed as fixed but not mentioned in the > > release notes. > > Sigh, yes, it looks like I missed that one in the release notes. > > Nevertheless, the issue should be fixed. Yes,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.4.2 released

2018-04-20 Thread Ben Gamari
Wolfgang Jeltsch writes: > Am Donnerstag, den 19.04.2018, 20:01 -0400 schrieb Ben Gamari: >> Hello everyone, >> ... > > What about #15005? It is closed as fixed but not mentioned in the > release notes. > Sigh, yes, it looks like I missed that one in the release notes. Nevertheless, the issue s

Re: Plan for GHC 8.6.1

2018-04-20 Thread Ben Gamari
Ryan Scott writes: > I have one major feature planned: -XDerivingVia. I haven't made a > patch yet, since the idea itself is still technically going through > the proposal process at [1]. But the feedback seems pretty positive, > so I think I'll submit it to the committee next week for final > co

Re: Accessing 'Annotations' of modules in external packages

2018-04-20 Thread Christiaan Baaij
ghc-devs is probably a better location for GHC API questions. Anyhow, you might want to look at some code in the Clash compiler: https://github.com/clash-lang/clash-compiler/blob/6ec3ca426bfaaaddcd3692775c25614bc19482fa/clash-ghc/src-ghc/Clash/GHC/LoadInterfaceFiles.hs#L168-L225 We use that to fin

RE: HsVectInstIn is dead code?

2018-04-20 Thread Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs
Manuel Can you comment on this? You’ve argued for keeping the vectorisation code in, but is this particular data constructor in VectDecl used? Simon From: ghc-devs On Behalf Of Alan & Kim Zimmerman Sent: 20 April 2018 14:21 To: ghc-devs Subject: HsVectInstIn is dead code? If I grep through

HsVectInstIn is dead code?

2018-04-20 Thread Alan & Kim Zimmerman
If I grep through the GHC source, or do a github search[1] It seems that HsVectInst exists, and can be renamed, typechecked, zonked, desugared. But it does not get parse, and does not appear to be introduced in any other way. Am I missing something? Should it be deleted (as hinted at in one of t

Re: Plan for GHC 8.6.1

2018-04-20 Thread Ryan Scott
I have one major feature planned: -XDerivingVia. I haven't made a patch yet, since the idea itself is still technically going through the proposal process at [1]. But the feedback seems pretty positive, so I think I'll submit it to the committee next week for final consideration. There is an imple