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

Simon Marlow marlowsd at gmail.com
Wed Jul 8 04:55:43 EDT 2009


On 07/07/2009 20:17, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> | 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.)

This is listed as "Remove class context on data definitions" in the list 
of proposals.  It doesn't have an owner or a wiki page yet.  Any volunteers?

Cheers,
	Simon


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