Dear Committee, no longer monthly, but still happening: Regular status updates. So what has happened in the last 4 months? * Chris Allen stepped down from the committee. Thanks for your work, Chris. * There was discussion about more rigid rules for the constitution of the committee. * There was a meeting during ICFP, Richard will summarize. * we were asked to review these proposals: #303: Constraint based arrow notation, new shepherd: Alejandro #275: Rebindable Application, shepherd: Richard #292: ByteArray Literals, shepherd: Vitaly #333: Defer Parse Errors, shepherd: Tom #344: Negative Literals Improved, shepherd: Joachim #343: BangPatterns by default, shepherd: SPJ * we have a recommendation from the shepherd about: #320: clsdfltassoctypinst in bckpck&.hs-boot (rec: accept) #195: Make Q (TExp a) into a newtype (rec: accept) #270: Extend Term-Level Lookup Rules (rec: reject) #274: Quicklook impredicativity (rec: accept) #344: Negative Literals Improved (rec: accept) #343: BangPatterns by default (rec: reject) * we have sent the following proposals back to revision #303: Constraint based arrow notation #292: ByteArray Literals #319: NoFallibleDo proposal * we decided about the following proposals #285: -XNoImplicitForAll (accept) #216: QualifiedDo (accept) #320: clsdfltassoctypinst in bckpck&.hs-boot (accept) #195: Make Q (TExp a) into a newtype (accept) #274: Quicklook impredicativity (accept) #344: Negative Literals Improved (accept) #343: BangPatterns by default (reject) We currently have to act on the following 2 proposals, down by 5. Good work! ## Waiting for committee decision none! ## Waiting for Shepherd action #333: Defer Parse Errors, Shepherd: Tom Tom, is this ready for Committee consideration? #302: Layout and Guards in Lambda Expressions, Shepherd: Cale Cale, it is high time to jump into action here! Cheers, Joachim -- Joachim Breitner mail@joachim-breitner.de http://www.joachim-breitner.de/