Re: Deprecating functions

I agree with Johan. I do think it makes sense to remove deprecated/replaced functions, but only after N+2 cycles. On 06:18, Fri, Jan 9, 2015 Richard Eisenberg wrote:

On Jan 9, 2015, at 5:37 AM, Jan Stolarek wrote:

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Especially that we're talking about internal TH module - I'll be surprised if there are more than 10 users.

As I understand it, TH.Lib is not an internal module. Though I, personally, have never found the functions there to suit my needs as a user, I think the functions exported from there are the go-to place for lots of people using TH. For example, Ollie Charles's recent blog post on TH (https://ocharles.org.uk/blog/guest-posts/2014-12-22- template-haskell.html), written by Sean Westfall, uses functions exported from TH.Lib.

I'm rather ambivalent on the deprecate vs. remove vs. hide vs. leave alone debate, but I do think we should treat TH.Lib as a fully public module as we're debating.

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