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

[Eric Seidel]

SimonM, Vlad,

The rest of the committee has expressed support for this proposal either on the ML or on SimonPJ's Google Sheet[1].

I think that is sufficient consensus to accept, but would prefer to get the full committee on record. 

Please take a few minutes to read the proposal and record your vote. Barring any explicit dissent, I will mark the proposal accepted next weekend.

Eric

[1]: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1e6GdwHmAjeDEUhTvP-b18MDkpTfH3SMHhFu5F3nDIWc/edit?usp=sharing

On Mon, Jan 15, 2024, at 02:21, Arnaud Spiwack wrote:
> 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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