On Thursday 13 October 2005 09:42, Simon Marlow wrote:
On 12 October 2005 23:50, Sebastian Sylvan wrote:
(I'm specifically interested in seeing SPJ's records proposal included, and a new module system).
Highly unlikely, IMHO. A new revision of the Haskell standard is not the place for testing new research, rather it's a clear specification of existing well-understood language features.
... and, in the case of the Standard Prelude section, or equivalent, a specification of well-understood functions that the spec authors agree "should" be provided in all implementations. I would hope that arbitrary binary I/O - to cite an important example - would not be considered a "research topic", as it is actually quite trivial. (It is, however, one of the "must haves" for Haskell to be considered for use in production systems.) -- Robin