Simon Peyton Jones
Actually that’s a good idea.
Simon
From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Greg Weber Sent: 28 August 2015 16:43 To: Ben Gamari Cc: GHC developers Subject: Re: Planning for the 7.12 release
Can we call this GHC 8.0 instead of 7.12 ? Overloaded record fields and backtraces are a huge missing piece to Haskell. It would be nice to have the bump to celebrate this occasion and say that Haskell 8 is "ready". I have had a hard time seriously recommending Haskell due to those last missing features. Now I should be able to say without reservation: "use Haskell > 8; it is great!"
I was discussing this very matter yesterday with a few folks. I think we certainly have enough features in this release to do a major bump. I half-jokingly suggested that 8.0 should only come with Phase 2 of Richard's Dependent Haskell work, but I'm willing to settle for merely kind equality. I think doing a major bump would be a great idea. Cheers, - Ben