<div dir="ltr">I fail to find a downside as well. I would still like to insist on the motivation section to feature an illustrative example before we merge the proposal, though. But the rest is good with me.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 12:11 PM Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-steering-committee <<a href="mailto:ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org">ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> ghc-steering-committee <<a href="mailto:ghc-steering-committee-bounces@haskell.org" target="_blank">ghc-steering-committee-bounces@haskell.org</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Alejandro Serrano Mena<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 01 October 2020 11:02<br>
<b>To:</b> Joachim Breitner <<a href="mailto:mail@joachim-breitner.de" target="_blank">mail@joachim-breitner.de</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org" target="_blank">ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [ghc-steering-committee] #364: Unify Nat and Natural, recommendation: accept<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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I recommend that we accept this proposal. The only problematic (read, not backwards-compatible) bit is the case of a type class having instances for both `Nat` and `Natural`, but that seems very unlikely.<u></u><u></u></p>
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Something which I thought about was whether any of `Nat` or `Natural` were implementing something akin to Peano naturals (so we could have inductive instances working on Zero and (Succ n)), both none of both do, so the alignment seems correct to me.<u></u><u></u></p>
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El vie., 25 sept. 2020 a las 16:06, Joachim Breitner (<<a href="mailto:mail@joachim-breitner.de" target="_blank">mail@joachim-breitner.de</a>>) escribió:<u></u><u></u></p>
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Dear Committee,<br>
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this is your secretary speaking:<br>
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Unify Nat and Natural<br>
has been proposed by Richard<br>
<a href="https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fghc-proposals%2Fghc-proposals%2Fpull%2F364&data=02%7C01%7Csimonpj%40microsoft.com%7Ccf838f8219a74bf4c26608d865f11f20%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637371434494036876&sdata=JSTuh5g4KrmxgwJRsQ9m8QXa0TnGxGVr%2FZUrbK7a%2FLA%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/364</a><br>
<a href="https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fgoldfirere%2Fghc-proposals%2Fblob%2Fnatural%2Fproposals%2F0000-unify-natural.rst&data=02%7C01%7Csimonpj%40microsoft.com%7Ccf838f8219a74bf4c26608d865f11f20%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637371434494036876&sdata=KYno%2B%2FA4WGYaDt5oV5VxCH7vWDn2QAU%2FSUjyR%2FZ6Yao%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">https://github.com/goldfirere/ghc-proposals/blob/natural/proposals/0000-unify-natural.rst</a><br>
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I’ll propose Alejandro as the shepherd.<br>
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Please guide us to a conclusion as outlined in <br>
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Thanks,<br>
Joachim<br>
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