[ghc-steering-committee] Status

[Joachim Breitner]

Dear Committee,

welcome to the new year 2018. 

Since the last status update, we
 * were asked to review these proposals:
     - merge -XTypeInType
 * accepted the following proposals:
     - /none/
 * sent the following proposals back for further refinement
     - /none/
 * rejected the following proposals:
     - /none/

On our table at the moment are:

Lazy unboxed tuples
https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/35
Shepherd: Ryan Newton
Status: Still waiting for Ryan to make a recommendation.

Mutable constructor fields
https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/8
Shepherd: Ryan Newton
Status: Still waiting for Ryan to make a recommendation.

Or Patterns
https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/43
Shepherd: Manuel Chakravarty
Status: Committee deliberation ongoing, likely expecting changes.

Visible dependent quantification (TL;DR: forall k -> k -> *)
https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/81
Shepherd: Roman Leshchinskiy
Status: Roman suggested changes, a slow discussion is happening.

Deprecate STM invariant mechanism
https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/77
Shepherd: Manuel Chakravarty
Status: Waiting for Manuel to make a recommendation

-Wall to include incomplete-uni-patterns and incomplete-record-updates
https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/71
Shepherd:  Simon Marlow
Status: Waiting for Simon to make a recommendation

Embrace (Type :: Type)
https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/83
Shepherd: Iavor Diatchki
Status: Waiting for Iavor to make a recommendation

Besides these, there are some proposals actively under discussion. You
can always check them out at
https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+no%3Alabel


Greetings,
Joachim


-- 
Joachim Breitner
  mail at joachim-breitner.de
  http://www.joachim-breitner.de/
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