[ghc-steering-committee] Please review #698: Qualified Literals (under review)

Erik de Castro Lopo erikd at mega-nerd.com
Wed Aug 20 10:25:33 UTC 2025


Hi Committee,

Discussion on this proposal has died down again so I have switched
it back to "pending committee review".

I have just re-read the current rendered version and suggest that
we should accept this proposal.

Cheers,
Erik


Erik de Castro Lopo via ghc-steering-committee wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I have been assigned as shepherd for this proposal.
> 
> There is still quite a bit of discussion on the GH issue and the
> text was updated as little as a week ago.
> 
> As shepherd, I am currently on the fence on this one (leaning towards
> "accept"), for the same reason brought up by @Bodgrim in the ticket and
> due to ever increasing complexity. I think it should remain under
> revision until the GH chatter dies down a bit.
> 
> Cheers,
> Erik
> 
> Adam Gundry via ghc-steering-committee wrote:
> 
> > Dear Committee,
> > 
> > Brandon Chinn proposes to introduce new extensions for qualified number, 
> > string and list literals:
> > 
> > https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/698
> > https://github.com/brandonchinn178/ghc-proposals/blob/qualified-literals/proposals/0698-qualified-literals.rst
> > 
> > I'd like to nominate Erik as the shepherd.
> > 
> > Please guide us to a conclusion as outlined in
> > https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/README.rst#committee-process-for-responding-to-a-proposal
> > (thanks Sebastian for pointing out the previously broken link)
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Adam
> > 
> > 
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