On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 4:47 PM, Bardur Arantsson <spam@scientician.net> wrote:

On 2016-12-29 21:12, Andreas Abel wrote:
>
> I am in favor of deprecating "read" and pointing to a total version in a
> library. Otherwise, I'd leave the Prelude unchanged.

This is also my preference. If we *have* to change the Prelude, I’d prefer moving Read out entirely.

But that throws a wrench in the works of people who want to be "-Wall"
clean... unless you mean "deprecated" in the sense of being *documented*
as deprecated rather than actually marked as such (causing deprecation
warnings during compilation).

I don't think making life easy for -Wall clean people should be a goal. The whole point of warnings is that they indicate things that might not be a problem. Otherwise, they’d be errors. This is especially true for warnings that only show up if you use -Wall instead of -W.

Dave Menendez <dave@zednenem.com>
<http://www.eyrie.org/~zednenem/>