On 2015-06-04 at 22:23:26 +0200, Bardur Arantsson wrote: [...]
Preserving the "qualified" keyword is better than no change at all, but is, I think, gratuitous preservation of a minor wart. Given the support for the original proposal, I'd hate to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory here.
(I thought I'd posted this earlier, but I guess not from my news reader's idea of concensus reality as decided by GMANE.org.)
+1 to whatever syntax is decided upon as long as it doesn't break too much existing code (i.e. published/Hackage code). Down with bikeshedding for its own sake! :) [..]
Clearly, this new syntax won't be available by default when only {-# LANGUAGE Haskell2010 #-} is active. So I assume this is going to be a new language extension enabled by a new to-be-named LANGUAGE-pragma (and if it stands the test of time, be enabled by default in, say {-# LANGUAGE Haskell2020 #-})? If so, why is it a concern if there's code breakage, as this new syntax will be an explicit opt-in? Cheers, hvr