<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Herbert Valerio Riedel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hvr@gnu.org" target="_blank">hvr@gnu.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":1wc" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">TLDR: To complete the AMP, turn `Monad(return)` method into a<br>
top-level binding aliasing `Applicative(pure)`.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sure... if we had a language that no one uses and could keep reforming like putty until it is perfect. But we don't.</div><div><br></div><div>A modest proposal:</div><div><br></div><div>We can't keep tinkering with a language and it's libraries like this AND have a growing ecosystem that serves an ever widening base, including the range from newcomer to commercial deployment. SO - Why let's do all the language tinkering in GHC 8 there can be as many prereleases of that as needed until it is just right. ...and leave GHC 7 (7.10? roll back to 7.8.4?) for all of us doing essential and dependable libraries, commercial work, projects on Haskell that we don't want to have to go back and #ifdefs to twice a year just to keep running, educators, people writing books. We can keep improving GHC 7 as needed, and focus on bugs, security issues, patches, cross compatibility, etc.</div><div><br></div><div>Think of it as Perl 6 or Python 3 for Haskell.</div><div><br></div><div>- Mark</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>