RE: Back-porting pattern synonym type signature syntax for GHC 7.8.4 [Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.4 Release Candidate 1]

2014-12-02 Thread Simon Peyton Jones
on this occasion, it’d be easily to do. Simon From: Dr. ÉRDI Gergő [mailto:ge...@erdi.hu] Sent: 01 December 2014 23:09 To: Simon Peyton Jones Cc: GHC Devs; Gabor Greif Subject: RE: Back-porting pattern synonym type signature syntax for GHC 7.8.4 [Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.4 Release Candidate 1

Re: Back-porting pattern synonym type signature syntax for GHC 7.8.4 [Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.4 Release Candidate 1]

2014-12-01 Thread Gabor Greif
Gergö, even if it might be too late for 7.8.4, don't give up hope for 7.8.5 :-) Gabor On 11/29/14, Dr. ERDI Gergo ge...@erdi.hu wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2014, Simon Peyton Jones wrote: My instinct is that (a)-(c) overwhelm (d); i.e. let sleeping dogs lie. But what do others think? Just

RE: Back-porting pattern synonym type signature syntax for GHC 7.8.4 [Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.4 Release Candidate 1]

2014-12-01 Thread Simon Peyton Jones
: Gabor Greif [mailto:ggr...@gmail.com] | Sent: 01 December 2014 15:53 | To: Dr. ERDI Gergo | Cc: Simon Peyton Jones; ghc-devs@haskell.org | Subject: Re: Back-porting pattern synonym type signature syntax for GHC | 7.8.4 [Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.4 Release Candidate 1] | | Gergö, | | even if it might

RE: Back-porting pattern synonym type signature syntax for GHC 7.8.4 [Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.4 Release Candidate 1]

2014-12-01 Thread Dr . ÉRDI Gergő
[mailto:ggr...@gmail.com] | Sent: 01 December 2014 15:53 | To: Dr. ERDI Gergo | Cc: Simon Peyton Jones; ghc-devs@haskell.org | Subject: Re: Back-porting pattern synonym type signature syntax for GHC | 7.8.4 [Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.4 Release Candidate 1] | | Gergö, | | even if it might be too late

Re: Back-porting pattern synonym type signature syntax for GHC 7.8.4 [Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.4 Release Candidate 1]

2014-12-01 Thread Gabor Greif
| Cc: Simon Peyton Jones; ghc-devs@haskell.org javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ghc-devs@haskell.org'); | Subject: Re: Back-porting pattern synonym type signature syntax for GHC | 7.8.4 [Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.4 Release Candidate 1] | | Gergö, | | even if it might be too late for 7.8.4, don't give up

Re: Back-porting pattern synonym type signature syntax for GHC 7.8.4 [Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.4 Release Candidate 1]

2014-12-01 Thread Dr . ÉRDI Gergő
| Cc: Simon Peyton Jones; ghc-devs@haskell.org | Subject: Re: Back-porting pattern synonym type signature syntax for GHC | 7.8.4 [Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.4 Release Candidate 1] | | Gergö, | | even if it might be too late for 7.8.4, don't give up hope for 7.8.5 :-) | | Gabor

RE: Back-porting pattern synonym type signature syntax for GHC 7.8.4 [Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.4 Release Candidate 1]

2014-11-28 Thread Dr. ERDI Gergo
On Wed, 26 Nov 2014, Simon Peyton Jones wrote: My instinct is that (a)-(c) overwhelm (d); i.e. let sleeping dogs lie. But what do others think? Just to give an idea of how limited the scope of this change would be, I've went and implemented it, on the 'wip/pattern-synonym-sig-backport'

RE: Back-porting pattern synonym type signature syntax for GHC 7.8.4 [Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.4 Release Candidate 1]

2014-11-26 Thread Simon Peyton Jones
others think? Simon | -Original Message- | From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Dr. | ERDI Gergo | Sent: 26 November 2014 00:59 | To: Austin Seipp | Cc: ghc-devs@haskell.org | Subject: Back-porting pattern synonym type signature syntax for GHC | 7.8.4

Re: Back-porting pattern synonym type signature syntax for GHC 7.8.4 [Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.4 Release Candidate 1]

2014-11-26 Thread Jan Stolarek
My instinct is that (a)-(c) overwhelm (d); i.e. let sleeping dogs lie. These arguments look convincing. I suppose the relevant section in the User's Guide should inform about changes planned for 7.10? To a limited extent this would address (d). Janek

Back-porting pattern synonym type signature syntax for GHC 7.8.4 [Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.4 Release Candidate 1]

2014-11-25 Thread Dr. ERDI Gergo
Hi, Now that we know what the syntax of pattern synonym type signatures is going to be for GHC 7.10, would it make sense / is it not too late to backport that same syntax to 7.8.4? To recap, 7.8 doesn't support adding type signatures to pattern synonyms, but GHCi's :i and Haddock both need