RE: Where to discuss the linear types extension of GHC?

2017-08-18 Thread Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs
But it could also be never, if the committee rejects the proposal... Don’t let that put you off. The more numerous and compelling the applications, the more likely it is that the committee will accept it! It’s a Big Feature, so the bar is high. But if there is a diverse bunch of actual

Re: Where to discuss the linear types extension of GHC?

2017-08-18 Thread Boespflug, Mathieu
Hi Wolfgang, great to see interest in linear types! I would advise caution about building anything on top of the linear types extension at this time. If you have interesting use cases, however, do tell, so that these use cases can influence the design. This is pre-alpha software, meaning that