On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 3:19 AM, Anthony Clayden < anthony_clay...@clear.net.nz> wrote:
> I'm baffled. Is this some sort of 'in' joke at ICFP? > Then remember the rest of the world can see this list. > > > All yays from committee members please reply with yes to > this email :) > > If this is to the committee, shouldn't it be on the > committee list? > (I mean ghc-steering-committee.) > > Or is there some other committee? I thought the > Haskell-prime forum and process > was dead/replaced by the github proposals process? > It's complementary to the GitHub repo. It seemed easier to discuss general things via e-mail. At risk of me sounding like a complete dork: I find it > rather useful > that I can compare numbers for equality and show them. > (That is, without having to write my own instances.) > All the standard instances of Num do have instances for Eq, Ord, and other usual classes. If you mean that you're comparing a parametric Num a => a, you'll be disappointed when you upgrade to GHC 7.4.1: https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.4.1/docs/html/users_guide/release-7-4-1.html
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