While I don't often agree with Henning, it seems that the notion of (quasi?)deprecating read is somewhat more popular than the notion of adding replacements for it.

On Jan 3, 2017 9:12 AM, "Henning Thielemann" <lemming@henning-thielemann.de> wrote:

On Tue, 3 Jan 2017, Edward Kmett wrote:

>From the discussion so far, feedback seems overwhelmingly positive on making the change, so everything I say here just assumes we're going forward.

I do not understand the feedback this way. There were strong arguments against adding and I thought that we do not simply count votes.
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