Request for feedback: deriving strategies syntax

Elliot Cameron eacameron at gmail.com
Thu Aug 18 19:23:51 UTC 2016


Given the prevalence of spellings like "normalise" in common Haskell
packages, we might just be settling on British English. Being American
makes that a tad difficult on my end, but personally I can make peace with
it.

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Matthew Pickering <
matthewtpickering at gmail.com> wrote:

> I also like 'bespoke' but then it seems to be a much more common in
> British English than American English.
>
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 7:46 PM, Ryan Scott <ryan.gl.scott at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Bardur,
> >
> > Since you don't like "bespoke", would you mind suggesting an
> > alternative, or advocating for a previously mentioned idea? From [1],
> > the ideas I've seen tossed around are:
> >
> > * builtin
> > * standard (Elliot Cameron suggested it here [2])
> > * wiredin (Cater Schonwald suggested it here [3])
> > * magic (Andres Löh suggested it here [4])
> > * native
> > * original
> > * specialized (the above three are ad hoc suggestions I came up with in
> a hurry)
> >
> > Ryan S.
> > -----
> > [1] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Compiler/
> DerivingStrategies#Alternativesyntax
> > [2] https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2016-July/012448.html
> > [3] https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2016-July/012450.html
> > [4] https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2016-July/012453.html
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