Re: Announce: ~Haskell 2011

2011-04-14 Thread Ross Paterson
On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 06:39:11PM +, Malcolm Wallace wrote: As a result, the committee has made the following decisions: (a) we wish to accept the NoDatatypeContexts proposal http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/NoDatatypeContexts (b) this delta will be applied to

Re: Announce: ~Haskell 2011

2011-02-06 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 06:39:11PM +, Malcolm Wallace wrote: (b) this delta will be applied to the 2010 Report to form a new baseline; Did this happen? If so, where is it? I only found: http://darcs.haskell.org/haskell-prime-report/ which hasn't had a patch since Jul 21 2009, and:

Re: [Haskell] Announce: ~Haskell 2011

2011-01-20 Thread Malcolm Wallace
(a) we wish to accept the NoDatatypeContexts proposal http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/NoDatatypeContexts The Trac-Wiki says: What removing the datatype contexts from a source file will do is make some previously illegal programs legal. What is an example? As on the

Re: Announce: ~Haskell 2011

2011-01-11 Thread Sjoerd Visscher
So, I wish to declare open season on proposals for the 2012 standard. If there is a language feature you care about, please do take an hour or two to review the details on our wiki [3], search for older discussions on the mailing lists, and draft the Report changes you think would be

Re: Announce: ~Haskell 2011

2011-01-08 Thread Malcolm Wallace
On 7 Jan 2011, at 22:25, Ian Lynagh wrote: Have you considered deciding about individual proposals as and when they are completed, rather than making a decision about all proposals each September? This could also avoid merge-conflicts between the report deltas for proposals that touch the

Announce: ~Haskell 2011

2011-01-07 Thread Malcolm Wallace
The Haskell Language committee has had a quiet year. Following the announcement of Haskell 2010 in Nov 2009 [1], and the publication of the 2010 Report in July 2010 [2], we found a distinct lack of complete new proposals to decide upon. As a result, the committee has made the following