Back-porting pattern synonym type signature syntax for GHC 7.8.4 [Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.4 Release Candidate 1]

[Dr. ÉRDI Gergő]

It is clear to everyone that all it would change is the *output* of GHCi's
:info and Haddock-generated docs, right? There's no change whatsoever to
what programs are accepted by GHC, or what they mean.
On Dec 2, 2014 5:44 AM, "Simon Peyton Jones" <simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:

> The issue is not so much timing for 7.8.4 (it's a modes change to
> pretty-printing only) but rather that it would make 7.8.4 behave
> differently to 7.8.3 (although similarly to 7.10). We typically do not do
> that.  And the same would be true of 7.8.5.
>
> Simon
>
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: Gabor Greif [mailto:ggreif at gmail.com]
> | Sent: 01 December 2014 15:53
> | To: Dr. ERDI Gergo
> | Cc: Simon Peyton Jones; ghc-devs at haskell.org
> | Subject: Re: Back-porting pattern synonym type signature syntax for GHC
> | 7.8.4 [Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.4 Release Candidate 1]
> |
> | Gergö,
> |
> | even if it might be too late for 7.8.4, don't give up hope for 7.8.5 :-)
> |
> |      Gabor
> |
> |
> | On 11/29/14, Dr. ERDI Gergo <gergo at erdi.hu> wrote:
> | > On Wed, 26 Nov 2014, Simon Peyton Jones wrote:
> | >
> | >> My instinct is that (a)-(c) overwhelm (d); i.e. let sleeping dogs lie.
> | >> But what do others think?
> | >
> | > Just to give an idea of how limited the scope of this change would be,
> | > I've went and implemented it, on the 'wip/pattern-synonym-sig-backport'
> | > branch (of both GHC and Haddock).
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