[ghc-steering-committee] Proposal #167 (Deprecated Entities): Request for comments

[Simon Marlow]

On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 at 02:14, Richard Eisenberg <rae at cs.brynmawr.edu> wrote:

>
> On Feb 5, 2019, at 7:11 PM, Eric Seidel <eric at seidel.io> wrote:
>
> My main concern is that I'd like us to be consistent in how we
> disambiguate namespaces. If we want to use `data`, we should use it
> everywhere (synonyms are fine by me as long as they are also consistent).
> This would means we'd need to revise the fixity proposal I linked to above.
>
>
>
> Yes, I should have included this in my email. If we decide to go in this
> direction, I would want to be consistent. This would include updating the
> fixity proposal (which is, I believe, still unimplemented) and expanding
> -XExplicitNamespaces to include `data`. Eventually, we would deprecate the
> use of `pattern` in import/export lists and then remove that feature. I
> suppose all this would necessitate yet another proposal.... but I do think
> the wider community (not just this list) should weigh in. However, before
> doing so, I'd be curious for more feedback from this group as a test-bed.
>

I'm in favour of that. Joachim's point about the potential confusion with
"data Bool = ..." is valid, but I think on balance using "data" is less
confusing than the alternatives.

Cheers
Simon



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