Folks,
I'm writing to say how I hope to progress the Standard Haskell
process. I have updated the 'State of play' page
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~simonpj/std-haskell.html
It now lists every change that I propose to make for Standard
Haskell. I now propose the following plan:
* Between now and ICFP'98 we discuss these proposals. By 'we'
I mean anyone interested: you can post mail to the Haskell
mailing list. If anyone finds that an onerous burden on
the list I suppose I can start another, but since it is
a shortlived thing I hope I don't have to.
* At ICFP I'll hold an open meeting of some kind to try to
resolve any remaining issues.
* After ICFP I'll publish a draft revised report for debugging
* A month or two later I'll freeze it
On the state-of-play page you'll find a few issues marked
'New'. These are ones I've come across in my tidying up phase,
and are either brand new or have been little discussed. I
highlight them for particular attention.
Please also pay attention to omissions: what have I missed?
Thanks for your help.
Simon
