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by tome 30 days ago
Do GHC2021 and GHC2024 not do what you want?
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rootnod3 30 days ago
Again, those are _GHC_ extensions, not "standard" Haskell. At this point it's not Haskell, it's Glasgow Haskell.

And those features are not a library that you just throw in, they are compiler specific.

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whateveracct 29 days ago
who cares

the only other haskell compiler is MicroHs. and it has no pragmas. it just enables the whole thing.

this is not a real problem in practice. even without the GHC20XX stuff (which is nice). it feels like a problem a novice would point at (and be totally wrong)

sorry your favorite language doesn't let you import language features according to your needs. half of them have trade-offs! like -XOverloadedLists. Useful, but hurts inference. Maybe you don't want it globally. But maybe in a few modules, it's perfect. {-# LANGUAGE OverloadedLists -#} is the answer that no other mainstream lang has.

-XPolyKinds is another great example of that sort of extension.

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openuntil3am 30 days ago
Which compiler would you like to use?
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rootnod3 30 days ago
Preferably there would be more implementation. But if they only implement the "standard" language, it will be missing a lot of things. That is the point! It's not Haskell anymore. It's Glasgow Haskell. It's its own language at this point.
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