Use generic Literal in the AST - #1917

👍 Nice!

Your productivity is unreal 😳

@AppShipIt Ah I don't know about that, I'm not as productive as I'd like 😉 - it's pretty easy to do this kind of thing when you're familiar with most of the compiler.

@paf31 what do we want to do about these GHC 8 warnings?

what do we want to do about these GHC 8 warnings?

@hdgarrood gave his feel in #1913 (comment) too. What are potential downsides of dropping < 7.10?

The only downside I can think of is that not as many people will be able to compile psc etc from source. I hope that we can get tooling to a stage where the majority of people don't feel the need to do this, though.

I'd be surprised if many people build from source as it is.

I use stack to manage mine at the moment, and I think a few others do too. It's marginally easier than downloading a binary bundle, extracting, and copying onto my PATH. stack does take care of installing the right GHC for you anyway, though. I don't really like the npm installer because the wrapper script it uses has caused problems with psci.