[ghc-steering-committee] Proposal: Reject #44 NoIfThenElse

Christopher Allen cma at bitemyapp.com
Tue May 16 17:21:28 UTC 2017


No objections, I believe it should be rejected too.

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 12:19 PM, Iavor Diatchki
<iavor.diatchki at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to propose that we reject that NoIfThenElse proposal (#44).   In
> short, it suggests that we remove the syntactic sugar for `if-then-else` and
> leave to programmers to define their own version as a function.
>
> I think that this has virtually no benefits and many draw-backs, including
> breaking existing code, and making programs more difficult to read.
>
> Would there be any objections if I was to mark this as rejected, and close
> the request?
>
> -Iavor
>
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