[Haskell] Haskell' Status Report

2006-09-27 Thread Isaac Jones
Ravi Nanavati has very helpfully put together a status report for the Haskell Prime process. Please see this link, or read the pasted text below: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/Status' peace, isaac Summary: Since the Haskell Workshop last year, the Haskell community

[Haskell] Haskell' Status Report

2006-09-27 Thread Doug McIlroy
One thing jumped out at me from the status report: everything was add, which reminded me of many old languages designed by accretion. Are the new facilities so perfectly orthogonal as not to subsume anything that was already there? Are none of them simply relaxations of previous limitatations?