LAST CALL to comment on the Applicative/Monad Proposal

[Oliver Charles]

Is there information anywhere on the process for acceptance/rejection
criteria. It sounds like hvr can outright reject any proposal - are there
others with that power? What is generally required for acceptance? Not
meant critically, just interested

On Wed, 16 Jan 2019, 8:01 pm Mario Blažević <mblazevic at stilo.com wrote:

> A month passed since the last call, and I'm sorry to say that the
> Applicative/Monad proposal has been rejected. Herbert has vetoed it on
> the grounds that it doesn't come packaged with MonadFail and
> MonadOfNoReturn proposals.
>
> This is very unfortunate because (I thought) there was finally a glimmer
> of hope for Haskell 2020. The new process used to complete the
> RelaxedPolyRec proposal seemed promising, as it worked around the
> commitee's letargy problem. As it turns out, that wasn't the only problem.
>
> In all fairness, Herbert did state [1] he intends to write up the
> combination of AMP, MFP, and MNRP the way he likes it. I do hope that
> happens, but when and if he submits the combined proposal, I would not
> be surprised if, for example, Philippa should veto it on the grounds
> that it doesn't include the ApplicativeDo proposal that she's been vocal
> about. This committee is a far cry from the one that gave us Haskell '98.
>
> A Haskell 2020 report with no AMP would be pointless, in my opinion, so
> I'm going to suspend my work on the report until this issue is resolved.
> I still think the best course of action may be to disband the current
> disfunctional committee and form a new one, as I proposed [2] before
> establishing the new process.
>
> [1] https://github.com/haskell/rfcs/pull/1#issuecomment-448126690
> [2]
> https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-prime/2018-October/004370.html
>
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