Please don't deprecate these modules. It is actively contributing to bitrot to deprecate a perfectly useful and well defined API. When I write new code that only needs C, I don't use C++ just because C is older. Likewise, when writing Haskell code today that doesn't require anything more than haskell 98, I use haskell 98. Because it is a well defined standard that I know will be supported by future and past compilers. Unlike writing to some current snapshot of what the libraries look like. Encouraging people to use bleeding edge APIs just contributes to the already dicey problem of writing future and backwards compatible code in Haskell, in fact, writing to haskell 98 is the _only_ option at the moment with any ability to do so. Haskell 98 should never be deprecated, because it is a stable, well defined standard that useful programs can be written to if someone chooses to do so and wants their code to have a chance of working down the road without having to continually keep changing it to keep up with libraries changes. John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈ - http://notanumber.net/