Pattern synonyms for 7.8?

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

| > What do other people think?
| 
| As long as the code additions dont't carry the danger of bugs in the
| solid areas, I'd second this motion. I'd love to start playing around
| with pattern synonyms.

Significant changes *always* carry the risk of bugs in solid areas.  But compiling Hackage (which I hope someone will try with the 7.8 RC) should flush most of them out.

Simon

| 
| Cheers,
| 
|     Gabor
| 
| >
| > Simon
| >
| > | -----Original Message-----
| > | From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of
| Dr.
| > | ERDI Gergo
| > | Sent: 05 January 2014 12:16
| > | To: GHC Devs
| > | Subject: Pattern synonyms for 7.8?
| > |
| > | Hi,
| > |
| > | When I started working on pattern synonyms (#5144) back in August,
| > | it seemed the GHC 7.8 freeze was imminent, so I was planning for a
| > | first version in 7.10/8.0 (whatever it will be called). However,
| > | since not much has happened re: 7.8 since then (at least not much
| > | publicly visible), and on the other hand, my implementation of
| > | pattern synonyms is ready, I am now starting to wonder if it could
| be squeezed into 7.8.
| > | What are your thoughts on this?
| > |
| > | Thanks,
| > |  	Gergo
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