[ghc-steering-committee] Please review #451: Sized literals proposal; Shepherd: Simon M

[Simon Marlow]

Just to wind this up: there was a vote on the github thread about syntax,
and we ended up with `123#Int8` and `123#Word64`. There were no dissenting
comments, so we can declare the proposal accepted.

Cheers
Simon

On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 at 10:28, Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear committee,
>
> Proposal #451 is about adding syntax for sized unboxed literals. That is,
> constants of type `Int8#`, `Word64#` and so on. The proposed syntax is
> `123#i8` and `123#u64` for `Int8#` and `Word64#` respectively.
>
> I think we should accept the proposal, but in my opinion this might not be
> the best choice of syntax. It was chosen to be consistent with Rust, but
> it's a bit of an outlier in Haskell/GHC. I would probably choose `123#Int8`
> and `123#Word64`.
>
> Feel free to comment on the github thread
> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/451
>
> Cheers
> Simon
>
> On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 at 19:30, Richard Eisenberg <lists at richarde.dev>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Committee,
>>
>> This is your interim secretary speaking:
>>
>> Sized literals proposal, proposing syntax for literals for the new sized
>> primitive numeric types, has been proposed by Sylvain Henry.
>>
>> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/451
>>
>> https://github.com/hsyl20/ghc-proposals/blob/sized-literals/proposals/0000-sized-literals.rst
>>
>> I propose Simon M as the shepherd.
>>
>> Please guide us to a conclusion as outlined in
>> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Richard
>
>
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