Dear Committee, this is your secretary speaking: Simplify parsing of (~) and (!) have been proposed by Vladislav Zavialov https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/229 https://github.com/int-index/ghc-proposals/blob/whitespace-bang-patterns/pro... I propose Richard as the Shepherd, has he already has groomed the proposal. Please reach consensus as described in https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process In particular, talk to the authors before, if you think this should be rejected, and kick off the discussion on Github, following the steps described under “Now the shepherd proposes to accept or reject the proposal” in the above link. Thanks, Joachim -- Joachim Breitner mail@joachim-breitner.de http://www.joachim-breitner.de/