On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Herbert Valerio Riedel
TLDR: To complete the AMP, turn `Monad(return)` method into a top-level binding aliasing `Applicative(pure)`.
Sure... if we had a language that no one uses and could keep reforming like putty until it is perfect. But we don't. A modest proposal: We can't keep tinkering with a language and it's libraries like this AND have a growing ecosystem that serves an ever widening base, including the range from newcomer to commercial deployment. SO - Why let's do all the language tinkering in GHC 8 there can be as many prereleases of that as needed until it is just right. ...and leave GHC 7 (7.10? roll back to 7.8.4?) for all of us doing essential and dependable libraries, commercial work, projects on Haskell that we don't want to have to go back and #ifdefs to twice a year just to keep running, educators, people writing books. We can keep improving GHC 7 as needed, and focus on bugs, security issues, patches, cross compatibility, etc. Think of it as Perl 6 or Python 3 for Haskell. - Mark