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

[Simon Marlow]

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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