Hi all, somebody wrote something which reminds me:
******************************************************************** * * * The ``next stable version'' of the Haskell language definition * * should be called ``Haskell 1.6''. * * * ******************************************************************** This follows the numbering scheme used before the current stable version. Some will still remember that during the discussion for the name of that version, a ballot was put out, and ``somehow'' the logical name ``Haskell 1.5'' was missing from that ballot --- it still received the second-most votes after ``Haskell 98'': as a free-form fill-in choice! But ``somehow'' nobody drew the consequence to do a corrected ballot... Add to that, that ``Haskell 98'' did of course not come out at a point of time that had any obvious relation with the number 98. Choosing ``Haskell 2006'' would therefore be equally unwise. And choosing something like ``Haskell 06'' would send a message that is completely wrong for a language that actually provides arbitrary-precision integers as its default integer number type. (It would also make version comparison even harder...) I therefore encourage everybody to refer to the current stable version as ``Haskell 1.5'', and stick with ``Haskell 1.6'' as the name for the next stable version. Wolfram _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
