(oops, forgot to cc to the list) Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
Hello John,
Wednesday, July 20, 2005, 10:14:23 PM, you wrote:
JG> It has been awhile since I wrote a Haskell program that can compile in JG> pure Haskell 98 mode. I think it would benefit everyone if a more JG> up-to-date standard were made available.
imho, there is an unofficial standard made by common GHC/Hugs features. afaik, other two Haskell compilers are not evolve any more. so that really you want to standartize? :) i think, the standartization process will help only in situations when there is several fast-grown and uncompatible realizations
Standardizing now-extensions to Haskell will let them permeate through the entire standard library. The hardest part in the standardization process wouldn't be choosing _what_ to include, but researching the effects on the current Haskell implementation itself.
question in that i really agree - that documentation about all extra-Haskell98 features are spread here and there. it will be great if we will add, for example, addendum to "gentle introduction" where new language features and libs will be covered. of course, much of this can be borrowed from Hugs/GHC docs and articles, written by its developers
I think it would be a good idea to take this page (http://haskell.org/hawiki/HaskellTwo) and, ignoring the "definitely," "possibly," etc., make sure that all the extensions people want in go to pages which are written in a Gentle Introduction-kind of way. - Sam (first post)