2012/11/30 Gábor Lehel
Well, I'm not so sure it's a great idea to just bake "what GHC does at this moment" (for any particular extension) into the standard without really thinking about it. Even then, you have to figure out, in great detail, what GHC does, and write it all down! That's not negligible effort, either. And the alternative is to also publicly discuss and hash all of it out down to the little tiny gritty stuff. But wanting to write a new standard (big effort!) just to get rid of some pragmas and make people feel better (small payoff!) feels like a mismatch to me.
It is a large payoff, considering the thousands and thousands of people that it creates a small payoff for: people writing Haskell, people learning Haskell, people teaching Haskell. A standard is a lot of effort for a handful of people. -- Jason Dusek pgp // solidsnack // C1EBC57DC55144F35460C8DF1FD4C6C1FED18A2B