<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Hi Robert,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>At the recent Haskell workshop, I stood up and gave the following summary (approximately):</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Up to now, the Haskell' effort has been mostly about exploring the possibilities, to find out what could be in Haskell', and to scope out what it might mean. We've now reached the stage where we want to do the opposite, namely trying to pin down what we definitely want to have in the standard, and what it should look like in detail. I've set aside a chunk of my own time this fall to help coordinate the activity, write text etc. I'm hoping that things should be pretty clear by early next year.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I have spoken with CUP and JFP about publishing the standard as a special issue of JFP and as a book, and they are interested. The strawman timeline for that is early next summer.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Hope this helps,</DIV><DIV>John</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 11, 2007, at 9:34 PM, Robert Will wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hi all,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">When I first discovered Haskell' I was really excited to hear that</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">many of the individual extensions that are already used by many people</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">are going to be put together to one coherent next release.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I have read the archive of the Haskell Prime Mailing list for all of</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">2007 as well as a lot of pages on Haskell.org and in the Haskell Prime</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Wiki, yet the most recent status report that I found is the one in the</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">wiki from September 2006.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">(<A href="http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/Status'">http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/Status'</A>)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Could someone please summarize the current status and planned time</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">line for Haskell'?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">thanks a lot,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Robert</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Skype: robert.will</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Haskell-prime mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:Haskell-prime@haskell.org">Haskell-prime@haskell.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime">http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; 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