[Haskell-cafe] RE: [Haskell] boilerplate boilerplate

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

[Redirecting to haskell-cafe; the main list is a good place to open discussions but not so good for continuing them]

| >   derive (Ord,Eq,Read,Show,Typeable) (BlogEntry Name Title Body Emai)
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| according to the most recent status report, the syntax is not quite
| settled yet, so what is in ghc head might still change. more info here:
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|     http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC/StandAloneDeriving

Indeed... but nothing much is happening at the moment because there's not been much feedback so it's drifted off the radar (so to speak).  Refining the wiki and evolving a consensus would be great.

Simon