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List:       haskell-prime
Subject:    Re: [Haskell] Status of Haskell'?
From:       Johan Tibell <johan.tibell () gmail ! com>
Date:       2012-11-30 22:15:46
Message-ID: CAK-tuPb6LPSGbbf+fcG1yr_vOrGVhNO+9bSqpMf+MvmNXr4cyg () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Jason Dusek <jason.dusek@gmail.com> wrote:
> It would be nice for there to be a new standard so that many
> features in GHC -- such as overloaded strings, rank n types,
> MPTCs, &c. -- were enabled by default without any pragmas.

I think this is one of these nice gains for day-to-day Haskell
programming. Less typing and fewer things to explain to beginners
("You see, this might seem like an experimental feature I'm asking you
to use, but it really isn't.")

-- Johan

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