[Haskell] Status of Haskell'?

[Jason Dusek]

2012/11/30 Gábor Lehel <illissius at gmail.com>:
> Well, I'm not so sure it's a great idea to just bake "what GHC
> does at this moment" (for any particular extension) into the
> standard without really thinking about it. Even then, you have
> to figure out, in great detail, what GHC does, and write it
> all down! That's not negligible effort, either. And the
> alternative is to also publicly discuss and hash all of it out
> down to the little tiny gritty stuff. But wanting to write a
> new standard (big effort!) just to get rid of some pragmas and
> make people feel better (small payoff!) feels like a mismatch
> to me.

It is a large payoff, considering the thousands and thousands of
people that it creates a small payoff for: people writing
Haskell, people learning Haskell, people teaching Haskell. A
standard is a lot of effort for a handful of people.

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Jason Dusek
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