2012/11/30 Gábor Lehel
Executive summary: We don't need a new standard right now. If people don't think it's worth their while to work on it, they're probably right. New, competing implementations might be valuable. If we have them, there will be demand for a standard, making decisions about it will be easier, and it will probably be better.
It would be nice for there to be a new standard so that many features in GHC -- such as overloaded strings, rank n types, MPTCs, &c. -- were enabled by default without any pragmas. This standardization process amounts to "endorsement of existing features" which seems like not a bad process at all. It makes the standard descriptive rather than predictive. -- Jason Dusek pgp // solidsnack // C1EBC57DC55144F35460C8DF1FD4C6C1FED18A2B