On 03/09/2023 01:15, Moritz Angermann wrote:
The practice that we put experimental/unstable features into our stable releases is something this proposal seems to cement, which is why I’m so much against it in this form.
But that practice is already firmly established (de facto), it's not something being introduced by this proposal! So while I understand your opposition to *the practice*, I'm struggling to understand the strength of your opposition to *the proposal*. You're welcome to make the argument (in a subsequent proposal, perhaps) that GHC should more firmly gate access to unstable features. If anything, that would seem easier to specify once the proposal's approach clearly defines those features. And in the interim, at least the proposal makes it possible to switch off unstable features systematically. So I understand that this proposal doesn't get you everything you want. But it seems like a reasonable interim step, and one that is more likely to command broad consensus than a radical change to release practices? Best wishes, Adam -- Adam Gundry, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, https://www.well-typed.com/ Registered in England & Wales, OC335890 27 Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3AX, England