Joachim Breitner wrote:
-1
If it wasn’t there, I probably would not vote for adding it, but in the interest of general stability, I believe removing this function is not worth the effort.
I think its interesting (I've heard this from a couple of people) that if this function was up for *addition* it would be rejected, but they do not support its removal or even deprecation.
Also, just removing fromMaybe when there are many other partial
Not fromMaybe (which is total), fromJust (which is partial) :-).
functions, some in the Prelude, does not really cut it. If there was a larger proposal „Make Haskell free of Partial Functions“, then that would be a different thing.
Maybe this is a like strictness; Haskell users don't want a strict version of Haskell so much as a Haskell where they have better control over the the tradeoffs between lazy and strict evaluation. Possibly what we need is a pragma to mark functions partial and a warning flag that warns on usage of functions that have been marked partial. Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/