| My original understanding of the Haskell' effort was that it was *not* | intended as going for "Haskell 2", but rather as an update of Haskell 98. | | In other words, the target is Haskell 2005: | | - anything that was tried and tested by the end of 2005 is a potential | candidate for inclusion in Haskell 2005. nothing else is. | | this would necessarily exclude much of the discussion here I think that the main justification for such discussion is this is one of the rare times when it's arguably OK to make non-upward-compatible changes Such changes tend not to be tried-and-tested precisely because they break H98. We can flirt with many such changes, but we should probably only adopt ones for which the case seems very strong. Simon