Three cheers for Brian, for his work to keep Haskell a
living and growing entity.
I propose as a touchstone for 1.3 that they should only look
at extensions that have been incorporated in one or more
Haskell implementations. Hence the following are all good
candidates for 1.3's scrutiny:
Monadic IO
Strict data constructors
Prelude hacking
Standardizing annotation syntax
But the following is not:
Records (naming field components)
If someone actually implemented records, then after we
had some experience with the implementation it would
become a suitable 1.3 candidate.
A further thing which 1.3 should look at is:
ISO Standardisation
The credit for this suggestion should go to Paul Hudak,
but I heartily endorse it.
Cheers, -- P
