New official language extension tokens for GHC 7.8.1

Simon Peyton-Jones simonpj at microsoft.com
Wed Sep 4 09:12:04 CEST 2013


Ian, is there any documentation of what these three things were doing? A wiki page?  If not, should we revert them all out again?

We don't want to leave experiments that have no active "sponsor" in the code.

On the other hand, you are wanting to pursue it, that's great. 

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Ian Lynagh [mailto:igloo at earth.li]
| Sent: 03 September 2013 22:16
| To: Simon Peyton-Jones
| Cc: Herbert Valerio Riedel; ghc-devs
| Subject: Re: New official language extension tokens for GHC 7.8.1
| 
| On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 07:48:58AM +0000, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
| > | Which of the language extensions listed in
| `expectedGhcOnlyExtensions`
| > | are deemed ready for public consumption in GHC 7.8.1,
| >
| > Good question.  Here's the list with my comments. We need input from
| Ian. on
| >
| > RelaxedLayout
| > AlternativeLayoutRule
| > AlternativeLayoutRuleTransitional
| >   I have no idea about these three.
| 
| AlternativeLayoutRule* aren't ready. I'm afraid I can't even remember
| what RelaxedLayout does OTTOMH.
| 
| 
| Thanks
| Ian





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