[ghc-steering-committee] Proposal #569: multiline string literals; Rec: accept

[Arnaud Spiwack]

On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 at 21:42, Adam Gundry <adam at well-typed.com> wrote:

> On the meta point, I agree with Simon's position here: we should avoid
> giving unconditional acceptance to underspecified proposals, only to
> potentially discover problems later. But where a proposal is not
> precisely specified, it would be preferable to accept in principle (so
> the author is not left wondering whether the idea has a chance) and then
> ask and support the author to finish the spec before merging the PR.


I agree too. I was thinking about it over the weekend: we kind of need a
status to say “we pretty much know we're going to accept it, so go ahead
and do the implementation, but we're still working the details out
together” (I was thinking in particular of the choice of string delimiters
from this proposal: it makes no material difference to the implementation
what we eventually settle on. So if there are questions, we should avoid
holding the implementation effort back just because we're having a
discussion about what we think it best).
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