[ghc-steering-committee] Please review: Eval class, Shephard: Richard

[Richard Eisenberg]

I agree that the proposal isn’t as specified as I’d like. Beyond that quibble, I don’t know how I could really evaluate this without knowing its true impact on existing Haskell code. If it were fully backward compatible and performant, I might be mildly in favor. But I worry it will fail on both counts... and the question is: how badly? I don’t know a way of answering that without implementing it, though!

Richard

> On Feb 28, 2017, at 2:02 PM, Christopher Allen <cma at bitemyapp.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm not convinced either. Generally if a silent `seq` is biting you
> the problem was partiality and not insufficient lightness of the soul.
> It seems like it would change sharing behavior as well, which is not
> good. This affects a lot of code with unreachable branches they can't
> reasonably get rid of. Often this is code that is performance
> sensitive and depends on the particulars of how things are getting
> shared.
> 
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 12:38 PM, Iavor Diatchki
> <iavor.diatchki at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I am not very convinced about the utility of this proposal.  Also, I think
>> that the current specification could use more details about how the system
>> should work.   I wrote a comment on the pull-request thread with more
>> details.
>> 
>> -Iavor
>> 
>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 9:48 PM, Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> this is your secretary speaking:
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/27
>>> was brought before the committee. I propose Richard as the Shepherd.
>>> 
>>> Richard, please reach consensus as described in
>>> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process
>>> 
>>> I suggest you make a recommendation about the decision, maybe point out
>>> debatable points, and assume that anyone who stays quiet agrees with
>>> you.
>>> 
>>> Greetings,
>>> Joachim
>>> 
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