Re: [ghc-steering-committee] Please review #632: introduction of new language editions (inc. GHC2024)

Yes, thanks for the reminder Adam. Ship it. On Tue, 6 May 2025 at 13:40, Adam Gundry wrote:

Hi Simon,

It looks like we're probably in a position to declare this proposal accepted?

Thanks,

Adam

On 09/04/2025 10:34, Simon Marlow wrote:

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Committee: I'm proposing we accept #632, which will change the policy for new language editions such that new GHC versions will use the latest language edition by default if one is not specified. GHC 9.10 didn't do this, but we'll aim to do it in the future.

Not specifying an explicit language edition is a relatively rare situation - in particular Cabal always sets the language edition. The notable cases where the default language edition will be used is when invoking "ghc" or "ghci" directly from the shell; see the proposal for more details.

If you have comments on the proposal, please discuss on github: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/632 https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/632

I think we should be able to reach consensus pretty quickly on this one, shall we say 2 weeks for comments?

Cheers Simon

On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 at 09:17, Adam Gundry mailto:adam@well-typed.com> wrote:

Dear Committee,

I propose to amend the process for introducing new language editions, such that GHC always uses the latest language edition by default. In particular this would change the default language edition to GHC2024 (it currently remains GHC2021):

https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/632 https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/632

https://github.com/adamgundry/ghc-proposals/blob/ghc2024-amendment/proposals... < https://github.com/adamgundry/ghc-proposals/blob/ghc2024-amendment/proposals...

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https://github.com/adamgundry/ghc-proposals/blob/ghc2024-amendment/proposals... < https://github.com/adamgundry/ghc-proposals/blob/ghc2024-amendment/proposals...

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I'd like to invite Simon Marlow to be the shepherd. (Originally I was shepherding this amendment myself, in the hope that it would be a

quick

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amendment in time for GHC 9.10, but that was clearly a forlorn hope!)

Please guide us to a conclusion as outlined in https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process

Cheers,

Adam

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