<div dir="ltr">The proposal looks quite sensible to me. On the other hand, I have no opinion regarding `123#u64` vs `123#Word64`.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 11:28 AM Simon Marlow <<a href="mailto:marlowsd@gmail.com" target="_blank">marlowsd@gmail.com</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"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear committee,</div><div><br></div><div>Proposal #451 is about adding syntax for sized unboxed literals. That is, constants of type `Int8#`, `Word64#` and so on. The proposed syntax is `123#i8` and `123#u64` for `Int8#` and `Word64#` respectively.</div><div><br></div><div>I think we should accept the proposal, but in my opinion this might not be the best choice of syntax. It was chosen to be consistent with Rust, but it's a bit of an outlier in Haskell/GHC. I would probably choose `123#Int8` and `123#Word64`.</div><div><br></div><div>Feel free to comment on the github thread <a href="https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/451" target="_blank">https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/451</a></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Simon<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 at 19:30, Richard Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:lists@richarde.dev" target="_blank">lists@richarde.dev</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">Dear Committee,<br>
<br>
This is your interim secretary speaking:<br>
<br>
Sized literals proposal, proposing syntax for literals for the new sized primitive numeric types, has been proposed by Sylvain Henry.<br>
<br>
<a href="https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/451" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/451</a><br>
<a href="https://github.com/hsyl20/ghc-proposals/blob/sized-literals/proposals/0000-sized-literals.rst" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/hsyl20/ghc-proposals/blob/sized-literals/proposals/0000-sized-literals.rst</a><br>
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I propose Simon M 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>
Richard</blockquote></div></div>
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