Do we know if any publicly released packages on Hackage would break from
this removal?
Not that that should be a blocker for a sensible change.
Thanks,
Antoine
On Oct 21, 2010 3:15 AM, "Simon Peyton-Jones"
This is a library propsal. There are a handful of functions in the template-haskell package, module Language.Haskell.TH.Lib, that are defined in that module, but are not used, and are not exported by the main Template Haskell interface Language.Haskell.TH. I propose to nuke them. I assume no one is using them (since they are not exported by the main interface), and I'm not keen on the API of rename. Moreover, rename becomes signficantly more compilcated with the advent of view patterns. The functions are: combine :: [([(Name, Name)], Pat)] -> ([(Name, Name)], [Pat]) -- Seems to be a helper for rename rename :: Pat -> Q ([(Name, Name)], Pat) genpat :: Pat -> Q ((Name -> ExpQ), Pat) alpha :: [(Name, Name)] -> Name -> ExpQ
simpleMatch :: Pat -> Exp -> Match -- This is the most defensible; it's a "smart constructor" Deadline 2 weeks. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4423 Simon