Re: Proposal: Add readMaybe (and possibly readEither) to Prelude, make Haddocks for read more cautionary

2016-12-28 5:46 GMT+01:00 David Feuer :

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> If there's any uncertainty w.r.t. the shape of the input, readMaybe or readEither should be used instead.

I would put it more strongly:

read should be applied only to strings that are known to have been produced by methods of the Show class.

I agree, that's more clear.