GHC 9.0?

Moritz Angermann moritz.angermann at gmail.com
Fri Jul 17 22:51:25 UTC 2020


Can’t dependent haskell be 10?

On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 at 1:09 AM, Alan & Kim Zimmerman <alan.zimm at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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