On 2015-11-11 at 11:41:56 +0100, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
But I particularly want us to get away from the idea that those who oppose any particular proposed change, tend to be against language changes in general. It is simply not the case, for any of the recent disputed proposals. [...] People who disagree with recent proposals do so with specific technical and sociological arguments.
Could you enumerate the "recent disputed proposals"? It's a bit unclear to me right now which ones are considered in that set. Are all proposals derived from the (real) Burning Bridges (Meta-)Proposal https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2013-May/020046.html contained in that "recent disputed proposals" set? Were there any non-disputed proposals recently?