Overloaded record fields for 8.2?
Hi Ben, devs, I'd like to propose that we merge my latest ORF patch (https://phabricator.haskell.org/D2708) for 8.2 (modulo any code review improvements, of course). The corresponding proposal discussion (https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/6) seems to have reached a broad consensus. But it's not clear to me if some kind of final approval from the GHC committee is needed, or how to obtain that. This patch makes breaking changes to the experimental OverloadedLabels extension, and I think it would be good to make those quickly rather than having another release with the "old" version. Moreover, the work has been in progress for a long time, so it would be great to see it finally make it into a GHC release. Any objections? Adam -- Adam Gundry, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/
Adam Gundry
Hi Ben, devs,
I'd like to propose that we merge my latest ORF patch (https://phabricator.haskell.org/D2708) for 8.2 (modulo any code review improvements, of course). The corresponding proposal discussion (https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/6) seems to have reached a broad consensus. But it's not clear to me if some kind of final approval from the GHC committee is needed, or how to obtain that.
The committee is indeed looking at it.
This patch makes breaking changes to the experimental OverloadedLabels extension, and I think it would be good to make those quickly rather than having another release with the "old" version. Moreover, the work has been in progress for a long time, so it would be great to see it finally make it into a GHC release.
Agreed, it would be great to have this finally see the light of day.
Any objections?
Pending committee review this sounds good to me. There are still a few other large patches that need to be merged for 8.2, so we have a little bit of time. Cheers, - Ben
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