[ghc-steering-committee] Extra Commas (#87), Recommend: accept

[Simon Marlow]

I support both adding ExtraCommas (minus constraint tuples) and Joachim's
suggestion to modify the warning for duplicate exports.  Both  of these are
useful.

The "cleaner diffs" motivation is more compelling than the CPP argument, in
my opinion. I often have to work with Python where it's common practice to
include trailing commas in multiline lists, and I miss it in Haskell.

Cheers
Simon

On 1 May 2018 at 03:59, Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> Am Montag, den 30.04.2018, 19:20 -0500 schrieb Christopher Allen:
> > https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/87
> >
> > With the provisos mentioned by Simon starting here in mind:
> > https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/
> 87#issuecomment-385536587
>
> I am not against the proposal, but in the interest of fighting
> extension fatigue I’d like to draw your attention to this (which I had
> just posted at https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/
> 87#issuecomment-385581915)
>
>
> If the motivation is really mainly about subexports lists, then we
> could simply tell GHC to accept
>
>    module Foo
>        (
>        Foo(A),
>        Foo(B),
>        )
>    where
>
> without warning about the duplicate export of `Foo`.
>
>
> Is this good enough to solve the subexport list problem for CPP users?
> (probably yes)
>
> Do we still want ExtraCommas, because it is also useful in lists and
> other syntactic constructs?
> (probably probably; I could be swayed either way).
>
>
> Cheers,
> Joachim
>
> --
> Joachim Breitner
>   mail at joachim-breitner.de
>   http://www.joachim-breitner.de/
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