The tricky thing is that while a new document describing the language in
detail would be welcomed, it's hard for people to justify doing all the
work that's involved in producing a new document that's substantially more
helpful than the Haskell 2010 or '98 Report. Right at the moment, there's
essen
To some extent I can agree with the view that certain small things should
possibly be folded in, but from another perspective, I actually like the
way that major language features are modular, and I can tell a lot about
what to expect by looking at the top of a file. There are also things that
most
I want to chime in with agreement that the GHC2021 push may meet many of the
goals you may be after. I also want to bring in a further aspect of challenge
in producing a new Report: we don't really understand Haskell well enough to do
so.
The two Reports do a very fine job of specifying the beh
Hi Richard,
Thank you for chiming in! I think I now have a better idea what happened
several years ago when the Haskell2020 effort died down...
And thank you for that link!! I did not know it existed! (Why would they
put it under a separate GitHub organization? That's why I didn't find it
LO
> On Nov 9, 2021, at 11:26 PM, Haowen Liu wrote:
> And thank you for that link!! I did not know it existed! (Why would they put
> it under a separate GitHub organization? That's why I didn't find it LOL)
>
>
That's a good question. I think we did it because it's a GHC-specific process,
not
On 11/10/2021 11:21 AM, Richard Eisenberg wrote:
On Nov 9, 2021, at 11:26 PM, Haowen Liu wrote:
And thank you for that link!! I did not know it existed! (Why would
they put it under a separate GitHub organization? That's why I didn't
find it LOL)
That's a good question. I think we did
Great idea to link from the README:
https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/6974
Thanks!
Richard
> On Nov 10, 2021, at 2:59 PM, Haowen Liu via Haskell-prime
> wrote:
>
> On 11/10/2021 11:21 AM, Richard Eisenberg wrote:
>>
>>> On Nov 9, 2021, at 11:26 PM, Haowen Liu wrote:
>>>
>
That's great! Thank you so much!
Haowen
On 11/11/2021 11:36 AM, Richard Eisenberg wrote:
Great idea to link from the README:
https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/6974
Thanks!
Richard
On Nov 10, 2021, at 2:59 PM, Haowen Liu via Haskell-prime
wrote:
On 11/10/2021 11:21 AM, R
