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
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-s...
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