Planning for the 7.12 release

Sean Leather sean.leather at gmail.com
Fri Aug 28 05:40:17 UTC 2015


On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Ben Gamari wrote:

> These items are a bit less certain but may make it in if the authors
> push forward quickly enough,
>
>
>     * Support for Type Signature Sections, allowing you to write (:: ty)
>       as a shorthand for (\x -> x :: ty).
>

Once Lennart convinced me of the usefulness of this [1], I've been finding
plenty of places where I wish I had it. Who's working on it? What's the
status? Is there a ticket for it?

Regards,
Sean

[1] http://augustss.blogspot.com/2014/04/a-small-haskell-extension.html
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