14 Jan
2011
14 Jan
'11
1:13 p.m.
Am 14.01.2011 13:47, schrieb Ross Paterson:
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 01:13:46PM +0100, Christian Maeder wrote:
The problem of adding a new function and deprecating an old one in the same release is, that sources modified according to the deprecation cannot be compiled with a previous compiler release.
Yes, you'd need ifdefs to do this, but waiting another year is just too slow. It's a trade-off, to be sure.
This can be decided before ghc-7.2. I want a decision for my proposal before ghc-7.0.2 (actually tomorrow according to http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4842). C.