Here's a quick summary of the major developments that we already have in the 6.8 codebase:
- Associated data types, and the new FC intermediate language - GHCi debugger (although there's an overhaul of the breakpoint support almost ready to go in) - Coverage (HPC) - GADTs + typeclasses - more packages moved from core to extralibs - GHC API changes, compile to object code inside GHCi - performance improvements: simplifier rewrite, and SpecConstr improvements - standalone deriving declarations - left-to-right impredicative instantiation: runST $ foo
It also has the Haddock comment support, so we could do a release of Haddock-GHC. /David, voting for 6.8
David Waern wrote:
Here's a quick summary of the major developments that we already have in the 6.8 codebase:
- Associated data types, and the new FC intermediate language - GHCi debugger (although there's an overhaul of the breakpoint support almost ready to go in) - Coverage (HPC) - GADTs + typeclasses - more packages moved from core to extralibs - GHC API changes, compile to object code inside GHCi - performance improvements: simplifier rewrite, and SpecConstr improvements - standalone deriving declarations - left-to-right impredicative instantiation: runST $ foo
It also has the Haddock comment support, so we could do a release of Haddock-GHC.
Ah yes, I thought we were forgetting something. Thanks David. Simon
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