Re: Improving Random

Zemyla, Richard and Carter: thanks for your questions! The proposal is large, and though we've tried to document things thoroughly (see links at the end of the email), the motivation behind and consequences of some decisions are not obvious. I don't want this proposal to stall. If you have follow-up questions, please ask them! If your questions have been answered by one of the detailed replies in this thread, would you mind saying so? Haddocks: https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.githubusercontent.com/idontgetout... Motivation and design: https://github.com/idontgetoutmuch/random/blob/v1.2-release-notes/RELEASE-NO... Benchmarks: https://github.com/idontgetoutmuch/random/blob/v1.2-proposal/CHANGELOG.md#be... On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 1:24 PM wrote:

Hi Carter,

With respect to migration, most people will need to make no changes. We have built all the packages in hackage against the proposed new version (1.2) and there have been very few breakages and, where there have been, the fix is very simple. For example, for `buffon-machines` the patch is just

-import System.Random +import System.Random hiding (uniform)

So most people will have zero pain and we have PRs prepared for those few packages that are impacted.

I think Alexey has already answered the question on deprecation.

Dominic Steinitz dominic@steinitz.org http://idontgetoutmuch.org Twitter: @idontgetoutmuch

On 27 May 2020, at 03:13, Carter Schonwald wrote:

Zemyla!

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Nothing is set in stone about deprecation and migration story, cause improving everything and making sure everyone has a zero pain/ or at least tolerable upgrade path is step zero. (And making sure good stable interfaces persists is key! )

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