Re: [ghc-steering-committee] RecordDotSyntax: please express a view

I'm not a huge fan of this proposal mostly due to the confusion it introduces between "a . b" and "a.b". However we already decided we didn't care too much about that when we introduced qualified names, so I think that ship has sailed. (In fact I'd rather like us to pick a different symbol for function composition, heretical a suggestion as that may be, given that we've effectively deprecated the significance . as function composition by introducing two more meanings for it). So to be clear, I am weakly in favour of acceptance. I would much prefer (.foo) to .foo for the standalone selector syntax, though. Cheers Simon On Mon, 9 Dec 2019 at 22:58, Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-steering-committee < ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org> wrote:

Dear steering committee

I'm the shepherd for the RecordDotSyntax proposal. https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/282

I recommend acceptance:

https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/282#issuecomment-5634776...

Please reads the proposal, and as much of the discussion as you feel able, and respond in the next week or two to indicate your views.

Remember: ask technical questions on the Github discussion thread, and use this mailing list for more evaluative discussion of judgement or opinion.

I'd love every member of the committee to express a view. This proposal has attracted a lot of interest.

Thanks

Simon

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| On Behalf Of Joachim Breitner | Sent: 28 November 2019 10:11 | To: ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org | Subject: [EXTERNAL] [ghc-steering-committee] Please review #282: | RecordDotSyntax, Shepherd: Simon PJ | | Dear Committee, | | this is your secretary speaking: | | RecordDotSyntax language extension proposal has been proposed by Neil | Mitchell and Shayne Fletcher | https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/282 | https://github.com/shayne-fletcher-da/ghc-proposals/blob/record-dot- | syntax/proposals/0000-record-dot-syntax.md | | This is going to be a tricky one. It is partly about whitespace, so it | has attracted a _lot_ of community interest, by far the most so far. To | navigate that ship, I propose Simon PJ as the shepherd, because he is a | excellent moderator and community manager, and because he has the | necessary authority to hopefully get a verdict accepted. | | Please reach consensus as described in | https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process | I suggest you make a recommendation, in a new e-mail thread with the | proposal number in the subject, about the decision, maybe point out | debatable points, and assume that anyone who stays quiet agrees with you. | | Thanks, | Joachim | -- | Joachim Breitner | mail@joachim-breitner.de | http://www.joachim-breitner.de/ | | _______________________________________________ | ghc-steering-committee mailing list | ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org | https://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-steering-committee _______________________________________________ ghc-steering-committee mailing list ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org https://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-steering-committee