[ghc-steering-committee] Proposal #569: multiline string literals; Rec: accept

[Eric Seidel]

Ok, I declare this proposal accepted and have merged the GitHub PR.

On Sun, Jan 21, 2024, at 12:28, Eric Seidel wrote:
> SimonM, Vlad,
>
> The rest of the committee has expressed support for this proposal 
> either on the ML or on SimonPJ's Google Sheet[1].
>
> I think that is sufficient consensus to accept, but would prefer to get 
> the full committee on record. 
>
> Please take a few minutes to read the proposal and record your vote. 
> Barring any explicit dissent, I will mark the proposal accepted next 
> weekend.
>
> Eric
>
> [1]: 
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1e6GdwHmAjeDEUhTvP-b18MDkpTfH3SMHhFu5F3nDIWc/edit?usp=sharing
>
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2024, at 02:21, Arnaud Spiwack wrote:
>> On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 at 21:42, Adam Gundry <adam at well-typed.com> wrote:
>>> On the meta point, I agree with Simon's position here: we should avoid 
>>> giving unconditional acceptance to underspecified proposals, only to 
>>> potentially discover problems later. But where a proposal is not 
>>> precisely specified, it would be preferable to accept in principle (so 
>>> the author is not left wondering whether the idea has a chance) and then 
>>> ask and support the author to finish the spec before merging the PR.
>>
>> I agree too. I was thinking about it over the weekend: we kind of need 
>> a status to say “we pretty much know we're going to accept it, so go 
>> ahead and do the implementation, but we're still working the details 
>> out together” (I was thinking in particular of the choice of string 
>> delimiters from this proposal: it makes no material difference to the 
>> implementation what we eventually settle on. So if there are questions, 
>> we should avoid holding the implementation effort back just because 
>> we're having a discussion about what we think it best).
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