In this issue on the hpack tracker, I describe my swing at coming up with a conservative set of extensions:

The list I ended up with is:

LambdaCase, GADTSyntax, ScopedTypeVariables, TupleSections, BangPatterns,

FlexibleInstances, FlexibleContexts, MultiWayIf, TypeOperators, FunctionalDependencies,

BinaryLiterals, RecursiveDo, ParallelListComp, PartialTypeSignatures, EmptyCase, InstanceSigs

Not sure about FlexibleInstances, EmptyCase, or TupleSections (see the issue).

If some set like this is accepted, then that "just" leaves figuring out the set of more complicated type system extensions :)

-Michael

On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 3:57 PM, John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com> wrote:

I wonder if there are GHC extensions we'd like to promote as features in the
next report, as a starting point for discussing new additions.

There are a few GHC features that have become part of the regular Haskell
landscape, such that it's hard to imagine a modern Haskell without them. For
example, MultiParamTypeClasses, OverloadedStrings, GADTs, TypeFamilies, etc.

How much "work" is typically involved in promoting a feature to be in the
Report, and how do we determine when it's a bad idea?

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