<p dir="ltr">Hopefully this makes it into the Haskell Platform soon</p>
<p dir="ltr">Is it already in Stackage? 😀</p>
<p dir="ltr">--<br>
--</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sent from an expensive device which will be obsolete in a few months! :D</p>
<p dir="ltr">Casey<br>
</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On May 21, 2016 8:39 AM, <<a href="mailto:amindfv@gmail.com">amindfv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Congratulations! Thank you everyone for all your hard work!<br>
<br>
Tom<br>
<br>
<br>
> El 21 may 2016, a las 11:18, Ben Gamari <<a href="mailto:ben@well-typed.com">ben@well-typed.com</a>> escribió:<br>
><br>
><br>
> ===============================================<br>
> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 8.0.1<br>
> ===============================================<br>
><br>
> The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the release of the first<br>
> new super-major version of our Haskell compiler in six years, GHC 8.0.1.<br>
><br>
> This release features dozens of exciting developments including,<br>
><br>
> * A more refined interface for implicit call-stacks, allowing libraries to<br>
> provide more helpful runtime error messages to users<br>
><br>
> * The introduction of the DuplicateRecordFields language extension, allowing<br>
> multiple record types to declare fields of the same name<br>
><br>
> * Significant improvements in error message readability and content, including<br>
> facilities for libraries to provide custom error messages, more aggressive<br>
> warnings for fragile rewrite rules, and more helpful errors for missing<br>
> imports<br>
><br>
> * A rewritten and substantially more thorough pattern match checker, providing<br>
> more precise exhaustiveness checking in GADT pattern matches<br>
><br>
> * More reliable debugging information including experimental backtrace support,<br>
> allowing better integration with traditional debugging tools<br>
><br>
> * Support for desugaring do-notation to use Applicative combinators, allowing<br>
> the intuitive do notation to be used in settings which previously required<br>
> the direct use of Applicative combinators<br>
><br>
> * The introduction of Strict and StrictData language extensions, allowing<br>
> modules to be compiled with strict-by-default evaluation of bindings<br>
><br>
> * Great improvements in portability, including more reliable linking on<br>
> Windows, a new PPC64 code generator, support for the AIX operating system,<br>
> unregisterised m68k support, and significant stabilization on ARM targets<br>
><br>
> * A greatly improved user's guide, with beautiful and modern PDF and HTML<br>
> output<br>
><br>
> * Introduction of type application syntax, reducing the need for proxies<br>
><br>
> * More complete support for pattern synonyms, including record pattern synonyms<br>
> and the ability to export patterns "bundled" with a type, as you would a data<br>
> constructor<br>
><br>
> * Support for injective type families and recursive superclass relationships<br>
><br>
> * An improved generics representation leveraging GHC's support for type-level<br>
> literals<br>
><br>
> * The TypeInType extension, which unifies types and kinds, allowing GHC to<br>
> reason about kind equality and enabling promotion of more constructs to the<br>
> type level<br>
><br>
> * ...and more!<br>
><br>
> A more thorough list of the changes included in this release can be found in the<br>
> release notes,<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.1/docs/html/users_guide/8.0.1-notes.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.1/docs/html/users_guide/8.0.1-notes.html</a><br>
><br>
> As always, we have collected various points of interest for users of previous<br>
> GHC releases on the GHC 8.0 migration page,<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Migration/8.0" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Migration/8.0</a><br>
><br>
> Please let us know if you encounter anything missing or unclear on this page.<br>
><br>
> This release is the culmination of nearly eighteen months of effort by over one<br>
> hundred contributors. We'd like to thank everyone who has contributed code, bug<br>
> reports, and feedback over the past year. It's only because of their efforts<br>
> that GHC continues to evolve.<br>
><br>
><br>
> How to get it<br>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>
><br>
> Both the source tarball and binary distributions for a wide variety of platforms<br>
> are available at,<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.haskell.org/ghc/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.haskell.org/ghc/</a><br>
><br>
><br>
> Background<br>
> ~~~~~~~~~~<br>
><br>
> Haskell is a standardized lazy functional programming language.<br>
><br>
> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) is a state-of-the-art programming suite for<br>
> Haskell. Included is an optimising compiler generating efficient code for a<br>
> variety of platforms, together with an interactive system for convenient, quick<br>
> development. The distribution includes space and time profiling facilities, a<br>
> large collection of libraries, and support for various language extensions,<br>
> including concurrency, exceptions, and foreign language interfaces. GHC is<br>
> distributed under a BSD-style open source license.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Supported Platforms<br>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>
><br>
> The list of platforms we support, and the people responsible for them, can be<br>
> found on the GHC wiki<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms</a><br>
><br>
> Ports to other platforms are possible with varying degrees of difficulty. The<br>
> Building Guide describes how to go about porting to a new platform:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building</a><br>
><br>
><br>
> Developers<br>
> ~~~~~~~~~~<br>
><br>
> We welcome new contributors. Instructions on getting started with hacking on GHC<br>
> are available from GHC's developer site,<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/</a><br>
><br>
><br>
> Community Resources<br>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>
><br>
> There are mailing lists for GHC users, develpoers, and monitoring bug tracker<br>
> activity; to subscribe, use the web interfaces at<br>
><br>
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><br>
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><br>
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><br>
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><br>
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><br>
> Please report bugs using our bug tracking system. Instructions on reporting bugs<br>
> can be found here:<br>
><br>
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