Re: Proposal: Deprecate decodeUtf8

Being the disruptive sort.... What if we DEPRECATE it for a cycle and then change its type? Almost all code that is no longer correct will fail to typecheck. On Aug 18, 2016 12:52 PM, "Bryan O'Sullivan" wrote:

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 2:08 AM, Niklas Hambüchen wrote:

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I propose to add a deprecation pragma to the partial function Data.Text.decodeUtf8.

I'm not terribly open to adding a pragma for this, I'm afraid. Its documentation already clearly states that it will throw an exception. I understand that developers often fail to read documentation, but I don't want to train them to also ignore compiler output because they get permanent warnings that they can't suppress.

I do of course agree that in hindsight, it would have been best to provide a safer function with this name.

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