[ghc-steering-committee] Proposal #168: fail with OverloadedStrings, rec: accept

Joachim Breitner mail at joachim-breitner.de
Sun Oct 21 09:37:54 UTC 2018


Hi,

Am Sonntag, den 30.09.2018, 10:38 -0700 schrieb Joachim Breitner:
> Dear committee,
> 
> welcome back from ICFP! Those who missed it: it was great, watch the
> videos, come to Berlin next year.
> 
> Shayne Fletcher proposed that in the presence of both RebindableSyntax
> and OverloadedStrings, the implicit calls to fail produces by the
> compiler should wrap the arguments in `fromString`:
> https://github.com/shayne-fletcher-da/ghc-proposals/blob/fail-rebindable-with-overloaded-strings/proposals/0000-fail-rebindable-with-overloaded-strings.rst
> 
> I’ll shepherd that myself.
> 
> I agree with Neil Mitchell in the assessment that this feels more like
> a bug fix than a proposal, and support acceptance.

already three weeks since ICFP? Well, this is now also accepted.

Cheers,
Joachim
-- 
Joachim Breitner
  mail at joachim-breitner.de
  http://www.joachim-breitner.de/

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