[Haskell] Announcing the new Haskell Prime process, and Haskell 2010

Simon Peyton-Jones simonpj at microsoft.com
Tue Jul 7 15:17:29 EDT 2009


| There are a couple sensible removals here.  Do we also want to get rid
| of the useless class contexts on data-declarations? (that look like
| "data Ord a => Set a = Set ...")

Yes! Yes! Kill them.

(In GHC's source code these contexts are consistently called stupid_theta.)

Simon


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