GHC 9.0?

[Alan & Kim Zimmerman]

I have to admit this thought had crossed my mind too.

Alan

On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 at 17:11, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:

> That's likely to be a fairly long wait, as i understand it.
>
> On 7/17/20, chessai <chessai1996 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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