[ghc-steering-committee] Why not?, rather than, why?

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Freitag, dem 02.12.2022 um 17:27 +0000 schrieb Chris Dornan:
> I am sympathetic to the idea of a new language standard that we
> promote heavily and encourage developers, tools, tutorials and
> courseware to favour —if we get this right then we will reap the
> benefits of a strong standard. But if we take it upon ourselves to
> try and force an extension combination of our choosing on the
> community because we believe the community will benefit from a big
> reset then I think it could blow up on us really badly, with forks
> and factions which could be truly difficult to manage — and fatally
> discourage adoption.

ah, sorry if I was unclear. I am certainly not proposing a form of “big
reset”!  It’s more about “should every language extension be in
principle on track towards in inclusion to a future GHC20xx” – still
all incremental and cautious.

Cheers,
Joachim

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