On Jul 7, 2009, at 11:40 , Claus Reinke wrote:
At last year's Haskell Symposium, it was announced that we would change the Haskell Prime process to make it less monolithic. .. In the coming weeks we'll be refining proposals in preparation for Haskell 2010.
Given the incremental nature of the new standards, would it be useful to switch back to version numbers, eg "Haskell 2.0.0 (2010)" instead of "Haskell 2010"? Otherwise, we'll end up with half a dozen more or less current Haskells related by no obvious means. "Haskell'98" was chosen because it projected more permanence than the Haskell 1.x line of Haskell revisions that came before it.
Arguably it was *too* successful at that. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH