There was a brief discussion on #haskell today about the Haskell standard. I'd like to get opinions from more people, and ask if there is any effort being done in this direction presently. I think an updated standard is overdue. I find it difficult anymore to write any but the most trivial of programs using pure Haskell 98. Some notable, and widely-used, features developed since then include: * Overlapping instances * FFI * Hierarchical namespace * Undecidable instances * All sorts of updates to the standard library It has been awhile since I wrote a Haskell program that can compile in pure Haskell 98 mode. I think it would benefit everyone if a more up-to-date standard were made available. I know that some people would like to hold off on such a process until their favorite feature (we'll call it feature X) is finished. I would argue that incremental addendums to the standard should be made more frequently, so that new features can be standardized more easily. Thoughts? Who organized the standardization effort last time?