There is nothing to stop an library author doing exactly this, and it
might even be useful for some people (personally I'm going to stick to
haskell-src-exts, because it's a brilliant library). However, I don't
think we should make it official or part of the standard. I've found
plenty of HSE/GHC parsing differences in my work, and my suspicion is
that several of them are probably also present in haskell-src. I also
don't want the Haskell Prime Committee to take on the jobs of library
maintainership or implementation, those are best kept elsewhere.
Thanks, Neil
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Yitzchak Gale
I propose that the haskell-src package be renamed haskell20nn-src for each revision Haskell 20nn of the standard, and be made an official machine-readable component of the standard.
This has the following advantages:
1. It would require almost no extra work, because haskell-src already exists, and syntax changes, if any, will be very minimal for each revision.
2. For the portion of the standard that it covers, any ambiguity that might creep into the human-readable standard document would be resolved.
3. It would serve as a basic machine-verification tool which is easily extensible.
4. As a side-effect, the haskell-src package would be continually maintained. The package is useful in its own right as a much lighter-weight version of haskell-src-exts. It is much easier to use when an application does not require full support of all of Haskell's syntax.
This proposal is a natural extension of a proposal raised on the libraries mailing list in the context of the Haskell Platform: Ian Lynagh proposed that the current haskell-src-exts be renamed haskell-src (and included in the Haskell Platform, as suggested by Sterling Clover), and that the current haskell-src be renamed to haskell98-src (and removed from the Platform).
The libraries subthread is here:
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2010-November/015018.html
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