I think I'm the one who requested that the backwards compatibility be added back in. I have no objection to removing it at this point.

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Matthew Pickering <matthewtpickering@gmail.com> wrote:
The [$qq| quasiquote syntax has been deprecated since around 2010.

Is there any objection to removing the backwards compatibility now?

I counted 216 uses of it on hackage in a handful of packages, some in comments.

http://lpaste.net/145938

Here is the commit which deprecated it -
https://github.com/ghc/ghc/commit/9ba922ee06b048774d7a82964867ff768a78126e

Matt
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