Robert Will wrote:
Could someone please summarize the current status and planned time line for Haskell'?
John Launchbury wrote:
Up to now, the Haskell' effort has been mostly about exploring the possibilities, to find out what could be in Haskell', and to scope out what it might mean. We've now reached the stage where we want to do the opposite, namely trying to pin down what we definitely want to have in the standard, and what it should look like in detail.
There's still a major technical obstacle, namely functional dependencies vs associated type synonyms . Some functionality for programming in the type system is needed for Haskell' but fundeps are too tricky to get powerful and sound at the same time. The problem with their promising alternative of associated type synonyms is that they're very young with their first official release being the upcoming GHC 6.8 . So, they have to stand some test of time before Haskell' can pick one of the two (probably the latter).
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