<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div><span>One objective would be to compile the Haskel Platform with near zero extensions.</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Monday, May 2, 2016 5:57 PM, John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">I wonder if there are GHC extensions we'd like to promote as features in the<br>next report, as a starting point for discussing new additions.<br><br>There are a few GHC features that have become part of the regular Haskell<br>landscape, such that it's hard to imagine a modern Haskell without them. For<br>example, MultiParamTypeClasses, OverloadedStrings, GADTs, TypeFamilies, etc.<br><br>How much "work" is typically involved in promoting a feature to be in the<br>Report, and how do we determine when it's a bad idea?<br><br>-- <br>John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F<br><a href="http://newartisans.com/" target="_blank">http://newartisans.com </a> 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2<br>_______________________________________________<br>Haskell-prime mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Haskell-prime@haskell.org" href="mailto:Haskell-prime@haskell.org">Haskell-prime@haskell.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime" target="_blank">http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>