Re: [Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] Interest in helping w/ Haskell standard
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 02:09:55PM +0200, Sebastian Sylvan wrote: Okay then. Consider this my contribution to the discussion. First of all I would like to urge the people who do end up working on this to seriously consider replacing H98's records system. I may be wrong but the impression I get is that enough people dislike the current system enough to warrant a replacement. And to me it seems to be a pretty much slam-dunk case that the proposal is *a lot* better than what we current have. How about a standard HList-style library specified in the report? then we get fancy records without having to change the language. Then we could work on syntatic sugar to make HList records as easy to use as built in ones. John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈ ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] Interest in helping w/ Haskell standard
(Trimming CC list. Maybe we should take this to haskell-cafe?) Sebastian Sylvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (snip quotes) I'm wondering what incremental and moderate extension means? Does it mean completely backwards compatible or can it mean completely new features including ones which subsume existing ones (I'm specifically interested in seeing SPJ's records proposal included, and a new module system). I was intentionally not addressing that question, because it's pretty much The Question. I certainly don't know the answer; just trying to figure out who wants to get involved, as a first step. I think everyone is agreed, though, that any process is going to be a very open one. peace, isaac ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
