August 2019 - ghc-steering-committee

Set reminders on Github
by Joachim Breitner 06 Aug '19

06 Aug '19

Dear Committe, I have enabled a “reminder bot” on our GitHub repository. You can set reminders by writing /remind me to close discussion next week or /remind @isovector to accept this on July 29 and the bot will confirm that it understood what you wrote, and then, well, remind you about it. You can use this for things like “if this stays silent, I will do X in Y days”. Cheers, Joachim -- Joachim Breitner mail(a)joachim-breitner.de http://www.joachim-breitner.de/

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Haskell Implementors Working: Looking for Panelists
by Niki Vazou 05 Aug '19

05 Aug '19

Hello, Haskell Implementors Workshop 2019 will be having a 45 min panel discussion (17.15-18.00 on Fri 23th August). The goal is to have panelists that represent the following committees: - ghc steering committee - Devops committee - core libraries committee - Haskell' committee - Haskell.org committee - Haskell Symposium & HiW steering committee Let me know if you - want like to be in the panel - if there are issues you want to raise in the panel discussion. Best, Niki Chair of HiW'19

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Type annotated quoters (#125) --- recommendation: accept
by Sandy Maguire 01 Aug '19

01 Aug '19

Hi all, Proposal 125 is on the topic of making quasiquoters which annotate the type of expression they produce. For example: qq :: TQuasiQuoter Int which would work when used via foo :: Int foo = [qq|| blah ||] but would be a type error (even before expanding the splice) in the context of bar :: String bar = [qq|| blah ||] I'm in favor of this proposal. It's small, a natural extension to typed expressions+quasiquoters, and solves the very real problem of statically verifying literals at compile time. The proposal is here: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/125 and my recommendation is: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/125#issuecomment-510612… I have recommend a syntactic change that is *not* present in the original proposal text. It seems unfair to make the proposer jump through more hoops after a year of inactivity on this proposal. As usual, silence will be considered assent! Best, Sandy

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