> On Mar 17, 2021, at 2:52 PM, Oleg Grenrus wrote:
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> Do we agree on this interpretation?
Yes, fully. Thanks for illustrating with examples.
Richard
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> - Oleg
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> On 17.3.2021 20.35, Richard Eisenberg wrote:
>> My vote is that the manual should be self-standing. References to
I, too, agree with Richard here. In fact, one (small) reason why we originally
chose RestructuredText as the proposal syntax is to make it easy to turn the
proposal into users guide documentation.
Cheers,
- Ben
On March 17, 2021 2:35:54 PM EDT, Richard Eisenberg wrote:
>My vote is that the
To check that I understand this
- Bad: "See the proposal for the definition of a closing token"
(important definition)
- Acceptable: "The reasons for this ..." (not essential information for
replicating the functionality, though maybe one sentence summary would
be good?)
- Fine: "...the
> On Mar 17, 2021, at 2:35 PM, Richard Eisenberg wrote:
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> My vote is that the manual should be self-standing. References to proposals
> are good, but as supplementary/background reading only. My gold standard
> always is: if we lost all the source code to GHC and all its compiled
>
I'm inclined to agree with this, especially given the argument that it'll
depend on the state of a proposal at a given time.
On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 2:36 PM Richard Eisenberg wrote:
> My vote is that the manual should be self-standing. References to
> proposals are good, but as
My vote is that the manual should be self-standing. References to proposals are
good, but as supplementary/background reading only. My gold standard always is:
if we lost all the source code to GHC and all its compiled versions, but just
had the manual and Haskell Reports (but without external
I forgot to link a bit of relevant discussion from
https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/406,
is there a (silent) consensus on the issue?
- Oleg
On 17.3.2021 19.15, Oleg Grenrus wrote:
> I have a following question:
> My lexer rules related proposal was recently accepted. The
I have a following question:
My lexer rules related proposal was recently accepted. The biggest part
of getting it in is writing documentation for it. While looking at
Divergence from Haskell 98 and Haskell 2010 section of the user manual,
in particular Lexical syntax, it already has See "GHC
