I have to admit this thought had crossed my mind too.

Alan

On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 at 17:11, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com> wrote:

That's likely to be a fairly long wait, as i understand it.

On 7/17/20, chessai <chessai1996@gmail.com> wrote:
> I always thought that we were waiting for -XDependentHaskell before we went
> to 9. That's just been my impression though; no one has has ever said that,
> AFAIK. Perhaps it is wrong.
>
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 9:04 AM Krzysztof Gogolewski
> <krz.gogolewski@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> There is an exceptional number of changes stated for the next release.
>>
>> * Better pattern matching coverage detection
>> * New windows IO manager
>> * Linear types
>> * Large-scale typechecker changes - Taming the Kind Inference Monster,
>> simplified subsumption
>> * Better register allocation, improving runtime by 0.8% according to
>> release notes
>> * ghc-bignum
>> * Explicit specificity and eager instantiation
>> * Qualified do
>> * Lexical negation
>> * Perhaps Quick Look will manage to land
>>
>> Should we call it GHC 9.0? I think the name would be deserved.
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