GHC 9.0?

chessai chessai1996 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 17 16:07:37 UTC 2020


I always thought that we were waiting for -XDependentHaskell before we went
to 9. That's just been my impression though; no one has has ever said that,
AFAIK. Perhaps it is wrong.

On Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 9:04 AM Krzysztof Gogolewski <krz.gogolewski at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> There is an exceptional number of changes stated for the next release.
>
> * Better pattern matching coverage detection
> * New windows IO manager
> * Linear types
> * Large-scale typechecker changes - Taming the Kind Inference Monster,
> simplified subsumption
> * Better register allocation, improving runtime by 0.8% according to
> release notes
> * ghc-bignum
> * Explicit specificity and eager instantiation
> * Qualified do
> * Lexical negation
> * Perhaps Quick Look will manage to land
>
> Should we call it GHC 9.0? I think the name would be deserved.
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