<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'm in favor of this proposal, for the reasons Alejandro gives: it fills a gap, and it's about as minimal as we can have.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Richard<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 7, 2021, at 12:02 PM, Spiwack, Arnaud <<a href="mailto:arnaud.spiwack@tweag.io" class="">arnaud.spiwack@tweag.io</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">I have no real opinion either way. The meat of the proposal is in the choice of type families. Are they reasonable? Probably. So I'm probably in favour, though I could easily be swayed either way.<br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 5:38 PM Alejandro Serrano Mena <<a href="mailto:trupill@gmail.com" class="">trupill@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="">
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<div dir="ltr" class="">Dear Committee,</div><div dir="ltr" class="">This proposal adds a kind-level ‘Char’ in a similar way as other built-in types, and an API to work with them and with Symbols.</div><div dir="ltr" class="">My recommendation is to accept the proposal: it fills a gap in our current kind-level machinery in the most minimal way.</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">Regards,</div><div dir="ltr" class="">Alejandro</div><br class="">
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On 7 Jan 2021 at 12:33:33, Joachim Breitner <<a href="mailto:mail@joachim-breitner.de" target="_blank" class="">mail@joachim-breitner.de</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div>
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Dear Committee,<br class=""><br class="">this is your secretary speaking:<br class=""><br class="">The Char Kind<br class="">has been proposed by Daniel Rogozin<br class=""><a href="https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/387" target="_blank" class="">https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/387</a><br class=""><a href="https://github.com/serokell/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0000-char-kind.rst" target="_blank" class="">https://github.com/serokell/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0000-char-kind.rst</a><br class=""><br class="">I’ll propose Alejandro as the shepherd.<br class=""><br class="">Please guide us to a conclusion as outlined in <br class=""><a href="https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process" target="_blank" class="">https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process</a><br class=""><br class="">Thanks,<br class="">Joachim<br class="">-- <br class="">Joachim Breitner<br class=""> <a href="mailto:mail@joachim-breitner.de" target="_blank" class="">mail@joachim-breitner.de</a><br class=""> <a href="http://www.joachim-breitner.de/" target="_blank" class="">http://www.joachim-breitner.de/</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">ghc-steering-committee mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org" target="_blank" class="">ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org</a><br class=""><a href="https://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-steering-committee" target="_blank" class="">https://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-steering-committee</a><br class="">
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