Preparing for a review of pattern synonyms

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

Just to say that I'm very pleased by this work.  Haskell can abstract over just about everything except patterns, and this feature fixes that embarrassing lack.  I've discussed the implementation extensively with Gergo, and he's more-or-less rewritten it several times. It's quite pretty I think.  

Thanks too to Lennart for pressing for it.  I believe the first impetus came at the Cambridge Haskell Hackathon.

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Dr.
| ERDI Gergo
| Sent: 09 December 2013 06:06
| To: GHC Devs
| Subject: Preparing for a review of pattern synonyms
| 
| Hi,
| 
| I believe I've finished implementing version 1 of pattern synonyms (i.e.
| everything described in #5144, minus the things in #8581, #8582, #8583
| and
| #8584). I've discussed the way forward with SPJ and he suggested because
| of the cross-cutting nature of the patch, I should wait a reasonably
| long
| time (~1 month) after 7.8 is branched off for things to settle, and
| then formally submit it for review.
| 
| So my question is, is there anything I can do in the meantime, in
| preparation for the review? The code is available at
| https://github.com/gergoerdi/ghc. I've also added some tests
| to the testsuite (https://github.com/gergoerdi/ghc-testsuite), and
| updated the wiki pages at
| https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/PatternSynonyms and
| https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/PatternSynonyms/Implementation.
| 
| Thanks,
|  	Gergo
| 
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