Proposal: Applicative => Monad: Is there any consensus?

[John Smith]

On 04/02/2011 13:15, Simon Marlow wrote:
> We should have a major libraries revision soon and redesign everything. I'm thinking we start it sometime in the next
> few months, aiming to get it into a GHC release in late 2012. We'll continue to support Haskell2010 (and Haskell2012 if
> appropriate), but to what extent those will be compatible with the new libraries depends on what changes we make.
>
> Cheers,
> Simon

Are GHC central going to take the lead in this? A major overhaul isn't going to happen without someone who can drive the 
process through to completion.