[ghc-steering-committee] GHC 2020

Eric Seidel eric at seidel.io
Tue Sep 1 16:52:44 UTC 2020


On Tue, Sep 1, 2020, at 12:18, Iavor Diatchki wrote:

> PS:  By the way, the FFI is part of Haskell2020,  but on the wiki 
> Richard marked it as not qualifying under his criteria 5.  I would 
> expect GHC 202X to be a super-set of the language standard, or do you 
> think we should be also removing things?

Actually, it's even part of Haskell2010[1], and GHC does enable it by default today. I thought we would be changing the default by adding it to GHC2020, but since we aren't I'm less concerned about FFI.

[1]: https://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/haskellch8.html#x15-1490008


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