Re: [ghc-steering-committee] Proposal #569: multiline string literals; Rec: accept

SimonM, Vlad, The rest of the committee has expressed support for this proposal either on the ML or on SimonPJ's Google Sheet[1]. I think that is sufficient consensus to accept, but would prefer to get the full committee on record. Please take a few minutes to read the proposal and record your vote. Barring any explicit dissent, I will mark the proposal accepted next weekend. Eric [1]: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1e6GdwHmAjeDEUhTvP-b18MDkpTfH3SMHhFu5... On Mon, Jan 15, 2024, at 02:21, Arnaud Spiwack wrote:

On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 at 21:42, Adam Gundry wrote:

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On the meta point, I agree with Simon's position here: we should avoid giving unconditional acceptance to underspecified proposals, only to potentially discover problems later. But where a proposal is not precisely specified, it would be preferable to accept in principle (so the author is not left wondering whether the idea has a chance) and then ask and support the author to finish the spec before merging the PR.

I agree too. I was thinking about it over the weekend: we kind of need a status to say “we pretty much know we're going to accept it, so go ahead and do the implementation, but we're still working the details out together” (I was thinking in particular of the choice of string delimiters from this proposal: it makes no material difference to the implementation what we eventually settle on. So if there are questions, we should avoid holding the implementation effort back just because we're having a discussion about what we think it best). _______________________________________________ ghc-steering-committee mailing list ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org https://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-steering-committee