Dear committee,

Proposal #451 is about adding syntax for sized unboxed literals. That is, constants of type `Int8#`, `Word64#` and so on. The proposed syntax is `123#i8` and `123#u64` for `Int8#` and `Word64#` respectively.

I think we should accept the proposal, but in my opinion this might not be the best choice of syntax. It was chosen to be consistent with Rust, but it's a bit of an outlier in Haskell/GHC. I would probably choose `123#Int8` and `123#Word64`.

Feel free to comment on the github thread https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/451

Cheers

Simon

On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 at 19:30, Richard Eisenberg <lists@richarde.dev> wrote:

Dear Committee,

This is your interim secretary speaking:

Sized literals proposal, proposing syntax for literals for the new sized primitive numeric types, has been proposed by Sylvain Henry.

https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/451
https://github.com/hsyl20/ghc-proposals/blob/sized-literals/proposals/0000-sized-literals.rst

I propose Simon M as the shepherd.

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

Thanks,
Richard