Dear Committe, it’s been two weeks since we started voting. We are still short one vote (Cale, release the suspsense!). But also, there are still plenty of “maybes” in your vote. I encourage you to change them to yes or no (at least for those extensions that are near the edge), so that we have more clarity on which extensions are actually worth spending emails on. As always, the table https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/ghc2021/proposals/0000-g... has the current data. (And even even got community contributions to improve its readability. Yay!) We discussed many extensions on (and I might have missed some): * The innnocence of PostfixOperators was pointed out, and widely appreciated * Joachim pleads for UnicodeSyntax * InstanceSigs worries seems to have been addressed, it’s on its way in * Whether OverloadedString is harmless enough. * Whether ViewPatterns are good enough (given that alternative ideas exist) * That ForeignFunctionInterfaces is actually part of Haskell2010 * That this isn’t quite the right time to ditch StarIsType * CUSKs vs. StandaloneKindSignatures * BlockArguments is liked by some, but may be too new * GADTs were advocated for a lot, but also a bit against, so not uncontroversial * Same with ExistentialQuantification * PolyKinds were advocated for (and got many votes) * ScopedTypeVariables is wanted on by default by some, despite the fact that nobody believes it’s the last word on that design corner. Alejandro argues that it’s ok to include it even if it will change in GHC202X again, but elsewhere SPJ says that GHC2021 should only include extensions we have reason to hope are stable and stay around . * Arnaud wonders about the hesitation to include FunctionalDependencies Applying the actual quota of ⅔ out of 11, i.e. 8 votes, these would go in no matter how Cale votes: BangPatterns, BinaryLiterals, ConstrainedClassMethods, ConstraintKinds, DeriveDataTypeable, DeriveFoldable, DeriveFunctor, DeriveGeneric, DeriveLift, DeriveTraversable, EmptyCase, EmptyDataDecls, EmptyDataDeriving, ExplicitForAll, FlexibleContexts, FlexibleInstances, GADTSyntax, GeneralisedNewtypeDeriving, HexFloatLiterals, ImportQualifiedPost, InstanceSigs, KindSignatures, MultiParamTypeClasses, NamedFieldPuns, NumericUnderscores, PolyKinds, PostfixOperators, RankNTypes, StandaloneDeriving, StarIsType, TypeApplications, TypeOperators, TypeSynonymInstances The following have 7 votes, which is the quorum based on 10 ballots: ExistentialQuantification, ForeignFunctionInterface, MonoLocalBinds, NegativeLiterals, RecordWildCards, StandaloneKindSignatures, TypeFamilies And these are one vote short: DataKinds, DerivingStrategies, GADTs, NamedWildCards, ScopedTypeVariables, TupleSections, UnicodeSyntax, ViewPatterns Not sure how useful the list of symmetric difference report is, but here it is: alejandro would miss: DataKinds, DerivingStrategies, FunctionalDependencies, GADTs, LambdaCase, MonadFailDesugaring, NamedWildCards, NoMonomorphismRestriction, NullaryTypeClasses, NumDecimals, OverloadedLists, OverloadedStrings, ScopedTypeVariables, TupleSections, UnicodeSyntax, ViewPatterns doesn’t want: none! arnaud would miss: Arrows, DerivingStrategies, ExplicitNamespaces, FunctionalDependencies, GADTs, MonadFailDesugaring, PartialTypeSignatures, TypeFamilyDependencies, ViewPatterns doesn’t want: ExistentialQuantification, ImportQualifiedPost, InstanceSigs, NamedFieldPuns, PolyKinds, RankNTypes, RecordWildCards, StandaloneKindSignatures, TypeSynonymInstances eric would miss: DataKinds, DefaultSignatures, DisambiguateRecordFields, ExplicitNamespaces, FunctionalDependencies, GADTs, MonadFailDesugaring, NamedWildCards, OverloadedLists, OverloadedStrings, PartialTypeSignatures, PatternSynonyms, RoleAnnotations, ScopedTypeVariables, TypeFamilyDependencies doesn’t want: EmptyDataDeriving, ForeignFunctionInterface iavor would miss: BlockArguments, CApiFFI, MultiWayIf, NoMonomorphismRestriction, NullaryTypeClasses, ParallelListComp, RecursiveDo, UnicodeSyntax, UnliftedNewtypes doesn’t want: ConstrainedClassMethods, EmptyCase, ExplicitForAll, GADTSyntax, GeneralisedNewtypeDeriving, InstanceSigs, KindSignatures, MonoLocalBinds, NegativeLiterals, PolyKinds, StandaloneKindSignatures, StarIsType, TypeApplications, TypeFamilies, TypeOperators joachim would miss: DataKinds, DerivingStrategies, DerivingVia, LambdaCase, NamedWildCards, NondecreasingIndentation, RoleAnnotations, TupleSections, UnicodeSyntax, UnliftedFFITypes, UnliftedNewtypes doesn’t want: ConstrainedClassMethods, ExistentialQuantification, TypeSynonymInstances richard would miss: BlockArguments, DefaultSignatures, DerivingStrategies, DerivingVia, DisambiguateRecordFields, ExplicitNamespaces, LexicalNegation, NamedWildCards, NumDecimals, ParallelListComp, RoleAnnotations, TemplateHaskellQuotes, TupleSections, UnicodeSyntax, UnliftedNewtypes, ViewPatterns doesn’t want: MonoLocalBinds, NegativeLiterals, RecordWildCards, TypeFamilies simonm would miss: DataKinds, DefaultSignatures, GADTs, LambdaCase, LiberalTypeSynonyms, MultiWayIf, NoMonomorphismRestriction, NondecreasingIndentation, NumDecimals, OverloadedStrings, PatternSynonyms, ScopedTypeVariables, TupleSections, UnicodeSyntax doesn’t want: DeriveLift, NumericUnderscores, TypeApplications, TypeOperators spj would miss: NoMonomorphismRestriction, NullaryTypeClasses, OverloadedLists, OverloadedStrings, ParallelListComp, RecursiveDo, RoleAnnotations, ScopedTypeVariables, ViewPatterns doesn’t want: ForeignFunctionInterface, GeneralisedNewtypeDeriving, NegativeLiterals, RecordWildCards, TypeFamilies tom would miss: BlockArguments, DataKinds, DefaultSignatures, DerivingStrategies, DerivingVia, DisambiguateRecordFields, DuplicateRecordFields, ExplicitNamespaces, FunctionalDependencies, GADTs, LambdaCase, LexicalNegation, LiberalTypeSynonyms, MagicHash, MultiWayIf, NamedWildCards, NullaryTypeClasses, NumDecimals, PackageImports, ParallelListComp, QuasiQuotes, RoleAnnotations, ScopedTypeVariables, TemplateHaskell, TemplateHaskellQuotes, TupleSections, TypeFamilyDependencies, UnboxedSums, UnboxedTuples, UnicodeSyntax, UnliftedNewtypes, ViewPatterns doesn’t want: ForeignFunctionInterface, MonoLocalBinds, StarIsType vitaly would miss: DataKinds, DerivingStrategies, DerivingVia, GADTs, LambdaCase, MonadFailDesugaring, NamedWildCards, OverloadedLists, OverloadedStrings, ScopedTypeVariables, TupleSections, ViewPatterns doesn’t want: ExistentialQuantification, StandaloneKindSignatures Cheers, Joachim -- Joachim Breitner mail@joachim-breitner.de http://www.joachim-breitner.de/