Unfortunately I think 4 man years is definitely below the minimum of
the guesses I would get if I would ask the people in my group ;-}
Doaitse
On 23 apr 2009, at 16:13, John A. De Goes wrote:
Let's turn this around. You invest 4 months of your life coming out
with your own experimental Haskell compiler designed to easily test
new language features. Then a bunch of ungrateful wretches on
Haskell Cafe demand that you stop distributing your compiler until
you have full support for Haskell 98. :-)
Do you think that's fair?
Regards,
John A. De Goes
N-BRAIN, Inc.
The Evolution of Collaboration
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On Apr 23, 2009, at 3:18 AM, Jon Fairbairn wrote:
"John A. De Goes" <j...@n-brain.net> writes:
That's absurd. You have no way to access private source
code, so any decision on what features to exclude from
future versions of Haskell must necessarily look at
publicly accessible source code.
This is all entirely beside the point. The question is not
whether n+k patterns should be in the language, it's whether
an implementation of Haskell 98 should include them.
The only alternative is to continuously add, and never
remove, features from Haskell, even if no one (that we
know) uses them.
But we can remove them in future language versions. The
point I was trying to make at the beginning of this
subthread was that implementations should follow the
definition, because having a core language (Haskell 98) that
can be relied on is simpler and wastes less time than the
alternative.
--
Jón Fairbairn jon.fairba...@cl.cam.ac.uk
http://www.chaos.org.uk/~jf/Stuff-I-dont-want.html (updated
2009-01-31)
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