The issue is not so much timing for 7.8.4 (it's a modes change to pretty-printing only) but rather that it would make 7.8.4 behave differently to 7.8.3 (although similarly to 7.10). We typically do not do that. And the same would be true of 7.8.5.
Simon
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Gabor Greif [mailto:ggreif@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]
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| Gergö,
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| even if it might be too late for 7.8.4, don't give up hope for 7.8.5 :-)
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| Gabor
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| On 11/29/14, Dr. ERDI Gergo