John Hughes wrote:
The problem with Haskell 98 is that it *lacks* features which have become absolutely essential to Haskell programmers today. Those features are what really *need* discussion and energy spent on them.
Very well, but this looks like a discussion for implementors and languages lawyers. It's not that interesting for me as a language/compiler user. For me, GHC is the de-facto standard because it works. That's why I found it more interesting to discuss improvements and changes. But I agree this is a different concern, and standardizing current practice certainly is needed to have a formally sound basis for further extensions. Perhaps you want to restrict traffic on haskell-prime to the original goal (standardization) and move everything else (incompatible and untested and unwanted modifications) to sth. like haskell-wishlist (I guess I'd unsubscribe from both, then, and get back to work :-) -- -- Johannes Waldmann -- Tel/Fax (0341) 3076 6479/80 -- ---- http://www.imn.htwk-leipzig.de/~waldmann/ -------