<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I am happy with this list: Aye!<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 9, 2020, at 9:56 AM, Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-steering-committee <<a href="mailto:ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org" class="">ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="">Colleagues<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="">Thanks for your various replies. I have<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;" class=""><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="">Added a couple more examples (please check)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="">Split (C2a) and (C2b) – thank you Joachim for filling out the list.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="">Add a Notes section that identifies some consequences, hopefully objectively.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="">Added a list at the end where you can add your AYE when happy.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="">Can you review, and Christopher, Richard, Cale, Simon, Eric, Alejandro, Arnaud: please add AYE or suggest further changes.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="">This is painstaking but I think it is clarifying. I have found writing out the examples is quite helpful. Feel free to suggest more if you think there are some cases that are unclear.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="">Thanks<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="">Simon<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><div style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-width: 1.5pt; border-left-color: blue; padding: 0cm 0cm 0cm 4pt;" class=""><div class=""><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Simon Peyton Jones <<a href="mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com" class="">simonpj@microsoft.com</a>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>06 March 2020 17:59<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>ghc-steering-committee <<a href="mailto:ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org" class="">ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Simon Peyton Jones <<a href="mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com" class="">simonpj@microsoft.com</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>RecordDotSyntax proposal: next steps<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Colleagues<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I’m sorry to have been dragging my feet on the records proposal. First there was half term holiday, and then the ICFP deadline, so I’ve been out of action for several weeks.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">It’s pretty clear that we are not going to achieve 100% consensus, so the right thing to do is to vote, using the single-transferrable-vote scheme that Joachim runs. It’s worth striving for consensus, because the debate can be clarifying (and has been!). But I don’t regard non-consensus as a failure. These things are all judgement calls, and people’s judgement can legitimately differ. Voting lets us nevertheless reach a conclusion.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">So here’s what I propose<o:p class=""></o:p></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;" class=""><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I’ve put up a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fdocument%2Fd%2F1MgovHRUUNjbuM4nM8qEe308MfbAYRh2Q8PxFHl7iY74%2Fedit%3Fusp%3Dsharing&data=02%7C01%7Csimonpj%40microsoft.com%7Cdf9d9fcc96344d61da8108d7c1f81154%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637191143491204686&sdata=ScGCAmSEiqXCePZcx03YYQXl08Fc38UC7rWx3Zg%2Fz1o%3D&reserved=0" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class="">list of choices for us to vote on here</a>, informed by our most recent email exchanges. The first thing is to ensure that this list is<o:p class=""></o:p></li></ul><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;" class=""><ol start="1" type="a" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;" class=""><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class="">Complete</b>: no choices that people really want are omitted.<o:p class=""></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class="">Clear</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">and unambiguous</b>. When we vote we must know exactly what we are voting for! <o:p class=""></o:p></li></ol></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm 6pt 36pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class="">Can you all respond about that, including “Aye” if you think it is both complete and clear</b>.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;" class=""><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Once we are all satisfied, I’ll invite you to vote. The easiest way to do so might be to edit the Google doc directly, so there’s a single point of reference.<o:p class=""></o:p></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Please also let me know if you think we should be doing anything else.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Thanks!<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Simon<o:p class=""></o:p></p></div></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">ghc-steering-committee mailing list</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""><a href="mailto:ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org" class="">ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org</a></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""><a href="https://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-steering-committee" class="">https://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-steering-committee</a></span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>