[ghc-steering-committee] #364: Unify Nat and Natural, recommendation: accept

Joachim Breitner mail at joachim-breitner.de
Mon Oct 12 08:42:45 UTC 2020


Hi

great, looks like we are all in agreement. accepted.

Cheers,
Joachim

Am Freitag, den 02.10.2020, 14:47 +0300 schrieb Vitaly Bragilevsky:
> Hi, 
> 
> I support the recommendation to accept this proposal. 
> 
> Vitaly
> 
> чт, 1 окт. 2020 г. в 13:02, Alejandro Serrano Mena <trupill at gmail.com>:
> > Dear all,
> > I recommend that we accept this proposal. The only problematic (read, not backwards-compatible) bit is the case of a type class having instances for both `Nat` and `Natural`, but that seems very unlikely.
> > 
> > Something which I thought about was whether any of `Nat` or `Natural` were implementing something akin to Peano naturals (so we could have inductive instances working on Zero and (Succ n)), both none of both do, so the alignment seems correct to me.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Alejandro
> > 
> > El vie., 25 sept. 2020 a las 16:06, Joachim Breitner (<mail at joachim-breitner.de>) escribió:
> > > Dear Committee,
> > > 
> > > this is your secretary speaking:
> > > 
> > > Unify Nat and Natural
> > > has been proposed by Richard
> > > https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/364
> > > https://github.com/goldfirere/ghc-proposals/blob/natural/proposals/0000-unify-natural.rst
> > > 
> > > I’ll propose Alejandro as the shepherd.
> > > 
> > > Please guide us to a conclusion as outlined in 
> > > https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Joachim
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