Non-H98 crusade, contd.

Simon Marlow simonmar at microsoft.com
Mon Feb 28 05:40:37 EST 2005


On 27 February 2005 10:47, Sven Panne wrote:

> OK, let's try to summarize what seems to be the current consensus
> about more or less conservative & settled extensions to Haskell98:
> 
>    a) rank 2 type signatures
>    b) polymorphic components for data constructors
>    c) pattern guards
>    d) data declarations with no constructors
>    e) constraints on typeclass methods
>    f) instances on type synonyms
>    g) relaxation of polymorphic recursion

I'd also like to see at least

     h) exceptions

up until the recent discovery of STM, I would have said concurrency too.

Cheers,
	Simon


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