<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear all,</div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Alejandro<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">El vie., 25 sept. 2020 a las 16:06, Joachim Breitner (<<a href="mailto:mail@joachim-breitner.de">mail@joachim-breitner.de</a>>) escribió:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Dear Committee,<br>
<br>
this is your secretary speaking:<br>
<br>
Unify Nat and Natural<br>
has been proposed by Richard<br>
<a href="https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/364" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/364</a><br>
<a href="https://github.com/goldfirere/ghc-proposals/blob/natural/proposals/0000-unify-natural.rst" rel="noreferrer" 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>
<br>
Please guide us to a conclusion as outlined in <br>
<a href="https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process</a><br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Joachim<br>
-- <br>
Joachim Breitner<br>
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