Which language extensions to register for Cabal 1.22?

José Pedro Magalhães dreixel at gmail.com
Fri Dec 19 18:04:36 UTC 2014


I'm not sure what the criteria are either, but I guess DeriveAnyClass is
comparable to the other extensions mentioned.


Cheers,
Pedro


On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com>
wrote:
>
> |  ...which of the following language extensions (which are mentioned in
> |  T4437) are deemed stable enough to be registered in Cabal for GHC
> |  7.10?
>
> I'm not sure what criteria you'd like to use!
>
> PatternSynonyms, PartialTypeSignatures, and NamedWildCards are all pretty
> stable and should go in.
>
> StaticPointers will definitely continue to be there in future; but the
> details of the API may change, and the current implementation is very much
> a prototype.
>
> DeriveAnyClass: I defer to Pedro
>
> Simon
>
> |  -----Original Message-----
> |  From: Herbert Valerio Riedel [mailto:hvriedel at gmail.com]
> |  Sent: 18 December 2014 22:14
> |  To: Simon Peyton Jones
> |  Cc: Johan Tibell; Austin Seipp; Duncan Coutts
> |  Subject: Which language extensions to register for Cabal 1.22?
> |
> |  Hello Simon,
> |
> |  ...which of the following language extensions (which are mentioned in
> |  T4437) are deemed stable enough to be registered in Cabal for GHC
> |  7.10?
> |
> |   - "DeriveAnyClass"
> |   - "PatternSynonyms"
> |   - "PartialTypeSignatures"
> |   - "NamedWildcards"
> |   - "StaticPointers"
> |
> |  Cheers,
> |    hvr
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