Some months ago I announced the formation of the `Standard Haskell
committee' at the Haskell workshop, to make one final revision of
Haskell which would become a stable, and hopefully simpler, language.
At that time I said we were aiming to complete tidying up the design
in October. Now it's
The Standard Haskell committee is debating a possible modification to
the semantics of pattern matching; the goal is to make the language
simpler, but the cost is an incompatible change to a basic part of the
semantics. To help us weigh up the cost against the benefit, we'd like
to poll the
