Week at ICFP: Injective Type Families merged into GHC HEAD
I spent last week at Vancouver, Canada attending Haskell Implementors Workshop, ICFP and the Haskell Symposium. Yesterday I gave a talk on injective type families, described also in my previous post. Slides are on my web page but the talk itself is not yet online. Day prior to the talk I finally managed to merge the injective type families branch, which means that this feature is definitely making it into the next stable release of GHC. (In case you haven’t heard this will be GHC 8.0, not 7.12.)
My next plans include extending injective type families to fully match expressiveness of functional dependencies, as outlined in Section 7.2 of the injectivity paper. I also hope to finally implement support for typed holes in Template Haskell. The patch was supposed to be trivial and I started working on it several months ago. But then I ran into several problems with it and abandoned it to focus on ITFs.