RE: Landing Backpack in HEAD

2016-08-19 Thread Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs
anding Backpack in HEAD | | Hello friends, | | I'm hoping to land Backpack (the patch is two years in the making | now!) for GHC 8.2, even though 8.2 is intended to be a stabilization | and performance release. In this email, I will make the case that the | Backpack patch is relativel

Re: Landing Backpack in HEAD

2016-08-11 Thread Howard B. Golden via ghc-devs
Hi, I created a stub Backpack entry in the Haskell wiki using the abstract of the paper. Howard ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs

Landing Backpack in HEAD

2016-08-11 Thread Edward Z. Yang
Hello friends, I'm hoping to land Backpack (the patch is two years in the making now!) for GHC 8.2, even though 8.2 is intended to be a stabilization and performance release. In this email, I will make the case that the Backpack patch is relatively self-contained and will not affect non-Backpack