[Haskell] Announcing Haskell 2010

2009-11-24 Thread Simon Marlow
I'm very proud to announce a new revision of the Haskell language, Haskell 2010. Over the last couple of months the committee has been making final decisions about which extensions should be a part of this revision. The final list is: DoAndIfThenElse HierarchicalModules

Re: [Haskell] Announcing Haskell 2010

2009-11-24 Thread Malcolm Wallace
On 24 Nov 2009, at 10:50, Simon Marlow wrote: I'm very proud to announce a new revision of the Haskell language, Haskell 2010. Hurrah! * Compilers can start implementing the changes, and flags to select the Haskell 2010 revision. In GHC we expect to have support in the next major

Re: [Haskell] Announcing Haskell 2010

2009-11-24 Thread David Leimbach
First off congratulations everyone! Second, Oh shit! Graham Hutton's excellent Haskell introduction book is now not valid Haskell 2010 due to N+K patterns? I loaned that book to my boss and he's really enjoyed it. I guess I'll have to buy a revised copy. Can we get an update to it? :-) I

Re: [Haskell] Announcing Haskell 2010

2009-11-24 Thread Norman Ramsey
I'm very proud to announce a new revision of the Haskell language, Haskell 2010. I stand up and cheer. It's great to see fruit from so many years of effort, and I am very grateful to the Haskell-prime committee for all this work, and for the improvements. I look forward to using the new

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Announcing Haskell 2010

2009-11-24 Thread Simon Marlow
On 24/11/2009 15:19, David Leimbach wrote: First off congratulations everyone! Second, Oh shit! Graham Hutton's excellent Haskell introduction book is now not valid Haskell 2010 due to N+K patterns? Right, but it's still valid Haskell 98, and we have no immediate plans at least in GHC to