Planning for the 7.12 release

[Herbert Valerio Riedel]

For the record,

I wanted to implement this feature a couple of months ago but then got
side-tracked. If somebody wants to pick it up (which would be great),
please lemme know.

In the meantime I've created

  https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10803

and write up the little information I have on this topic already


On 2015-08-28 at 09:20:54 +0200, Simon Peyton Jones wrote:
> Lennart always says he’s going to work on it, but he’s a busy man and nothing has actually happened.
>
> It’s a pretty easy feature to implement I think.
>
> Simon
>
> From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Sean Leather
> Sent: 28 August 2015 06:40
> To: Ben Gamari
> Cc: GHC developers
> Subject: Re: Planning for the 7.12 release
>
> 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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