Are there GHC extensions we'd like to incorporate wholesale?

Tue May 3 05:32:59 UTC 2016

On 02/05/2016, Cale Gibbard <cgibbard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Are there extensions which ought to stop being extensions?

> It may also be best to leave the answer up to the implementations. It is much
> easier to argue for something like that once the extension has been on by
> default in GHC and all other implementations for a while and most everyone
> seems happy leaving it on.

I think in many cases that would defeat the purpose of extensions.