[ghc-steering-committee] Bang patterns: 343

[Simon Peyton Jones]

Friends
Despite asking, I'm not seeing any support for proposal 343 "Enable bang patterns by default<https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/343>", except from the author. He makes a good case, but I think it's a case that you could make for quite a few extensions.
I propose that we reject the proposal as written.  Any objections?
That leaves the wider question, best summarised by Joachim's post<https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/343#issuecomment-664631343>: we could occasionally add a new synonym for a bunch of extensions.   I suppose we'd have to (a) debate and decide that process and (b) execute on the process.   Perhaps that'd be useful but it's all work.  Let's first see if there is real support for doing it.   If so, probably the best thing would be for someone who wants it to happen to write a proposal (as Joachim has started) describing the process.
Simon

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