On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 10:42:24AM +0100, 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.
Indeed. I'd love to have a new Haskell 06 that adds just a carefully (and conservatively) selected subset of ghc's extensions, if that meant that my code would also run on hugs and jhc. Like everyone else, there are *some* experimental features I'd love to see go in, most particularly John Meacham's class aliases proposal, which seems like (perhaps from my naive perspective) a moderately conservative change that opens up huge possibilities for improved libraries (which could then be developed to the new standard). -- David Roundy