Re: Proposal process status

On 07/21/2016 08:38 PM, Richard Eisenberg wrote:

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On Jul 21, 2016, at 2:25 PM, Yuras Shumovich wrote:

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Haskell Prime committee will never catch up if GHC will continue adding new extensions.

Of course not. But I believe some libraries also refrain from using new extensions for precisely the same reason -- that the new extensions have yet to fully gel.

Indeed, a major issue right now is that Haskell-as-practiced is *sooo* far from Haskell-as-standardized (H2010) that it's basically hopeless to implement most non-trivial things using only H2010. We're not even talking missing very advanced things, just "basic" things like MPTCs, ScopedTypeVariables not being the standard behavior, various derivations, auto-Typeable, TypeFams vs. FunDeps[1], plus various minor syntactic conveniences[2], BangPatterns, etc. etc. Just FTR: Of course, I realize that standardizing any of this is *much* easier said than done, so this is NOT meant as a slight against anyone! Regards, [1] Alright, this one might be a little more contentious, but the basic functionality of FunDeps (or the equivalent functionality form TypeFams) is sometimes necessary. [2] These I can and will work around if necessary, but as long as something else in my package requires anything non-Haskell2010, why should I bother?