#1311: newtypes of unboxed types disallowed - documentation bug and/or feature request -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: Isaac Dupree | Owner: osa1 Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: low | Milestone: ⊥ Component: Compiler | Version: 7.7 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by simonpj):
I would really like a wiki page to describe the design, please. Maybe it's a simple page -- if so, so much the better.
Alex, it's great that you have made a patch but I can't even begin to look at it until I know precisely what it is intended to achieve. Specification before implementation. You might also (perhaps in parallel) want to formulate a [https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals GHC Proposal]. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1311#comment:19 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler