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

[Chris Dornan]

I think we are on the same page, but the thread seemed to be taking an authoritarian turn so I thought it best to ensure the voices of caution were represented!

Chris

> On 2 Dec 2022, at 17:39, Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de> wrote:
> 
> 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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> Joachim Breitner
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