#10886: Remove the magic from `Any` -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: goldfire | Owner: goldfire Type: task | Status: closed Priority: normal | Milestone: 8.2.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.10.2 Resolution: fixed | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Rev(s): Phab:D2049 Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by thomie): It doesn't matter that there is a small comment in the documentation that says to use `GHC.Exts` instead. `GHC.Prim` is out there, visible on hackage, and people are using it. There are ~375 modules importing `GHC.Prim` across 163 hackage packages. With GHC 8.0 and 8.2 some of those packages will be broken. What about 8.4? Breaking user code is bad, especially if there is zero benefit to users, and just causes busywork for users and maintainers. I run into these problems all the time when trying to reproduce bug reports with HEAD, and it's really quite annoying.
renaming it [..] would require a fair number of changes in the compiler
I don't understand. But I guess there are a million more urgent GHC problems to work on, so I guess I should let it rest. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10886#comment:11 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler