Ultimately any decision made would be made by the maintainer of the
library, even if text were a core library. The library submissions process
is to help inform a decision by the package maintainer by informing them of
community preferences and to get the discussion out in the open where more
people can talk about it and raise issues -- it isn't binding.
While text isn't a "core library", it has been part of the platform for a
long time, and this is a good place to at least start the discussion around
any changes to it. Bryan remains of course free to accept of reject the
proposals that come to him.
-Edward
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 7:28 AM, Yuras Shumovich
Hi Niklas,
AFAIK `text` is not maintained by CLC: https://wiki.haskell.org/Library_submissions#The_Core_Libraries (Please correct me if I'm wrong)
You should probably work directly with the maintainer, e.g. open an issue. I think it is OK to discuss it on the list, but it should be clear that the maintainer is free to ignore any decision made here.
Thanks, Yuras.
On Thu, 2016-08-18 at 17:08 +0800, Niklas Hambüchen wrote:
I propose to add a deprecation pragma to the partial function Data.Text.decodeUtf8.
I see checks or decoding failure accidentally omitted from production code every week. I claim decodeUtf8 to be *the* most abused partial function in the current Haskell ecosystem (with `head` and `tail` at least everybody knows they should feel bad when typing them down).
decodeUtf8' with custom error message is a better solution in all cases I have seen and can come up with.
I therefore propose:
* Add deprecation pragma to decodeUtf8 * Do it with Text.Lazy and *16/*32 functions too * But keep them indefinitely (we don't want to break compiles)
I believe that deprecating decodeUtf8 will result in lots of useful warnings across the world every day and less software crashing at runtime.
Discussion period 2 months.
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