[ghc-steering-committee] Proposal #77 "Deprecating STM invariant mechanism" — suggesting acceptance

[Ben Gamari]

Manuel M T Chakravarty <chak at justtesting.org> writes:

> Folks,
>
> I’d like to reach consensus on Proposal #77 ”Deprecating STM invariant mechanism”:
>
>   https://github.com/bgamari/ghc-proposals/blob/deprecate-stm-invariants/proposals/0000-deprecate-stm-invariants.rst
>
> (The discussion thread is at <https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/77>.)
>
> This proposal is about removing a rarely used feature that is arguably
> buggy and also imposes significant complexity. I think, removing ideas
> that turn out to be not working properly or simply aren’t sufficiently
> useful for the complexity they impose is an important part of the
> process. The STM invariant mechanism appears to fit that bill. Hence,
> I suggest to accept this proposal.
>
As the author of the proposal, I second.

Cheers,

- Ben

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