It *should* be possible to recognize

return = pure
return x = pure x
pure = return
pure x = return x
and also cases where pure and return are defined the same up to alpha equivalence. It should also be possible to fix this up automatically, but there are several different fixes that programmers may want. Many package maintainers strive to support old GHC versions--some as far back as 7.0--and a few even try to keep their code running in Hugs, although that seems a bit silly. Those maintainers will probably want to use MIN_VERSION_base to maintain backwards compatibility. Some of those packages (e.g., containers) approximate fake versions of that macro for non-cabal compilation, but such conditional definitions may occur in each file separately or in a global include file.

On Sep 25, 2015 11:35 AM, "Greg Weber" <greg@gregweber.info> wrote:

Is the upgrade automatable with tooling that analyzes Haskell source code?

If so can we provide an executable that will automatically upgrade packages?

Pull requests could even be sent automatically.

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 5:02 AM, Alexander Berntsen <alexander@plaimi.net> wrote:

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Enthusiastic +1 from me too, of course.

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