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

[David Menendez]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 4:47 PM, Bardur Arantsson <spam at scientician.net>
wrote:

> On 2016-12-29 21:12, Andreas Abel wrote:
> >
> > I am in favor of deprecating "read" and pointing to a total version in a
> > library.  Otherwise, I'd leave the Prelude unchanged.
>

This is also my preference. If we *have* to change the Prelude, I’d prefer
moving Read out entirely.

But that throws a wrench in the works of people who want to be "-Wall"
> clean... unless you mean "deprecated" in the sense of being *documented*
> as deprecated rather than actually marked as such (causing deprecation
> warnings during compilation).
>

I don't think making life easy for -Wall clean people should be a goal. The
whole point of warnings is that they indicate things that might not be a
problem. Otherwise, they’d be errors. This is especially true for warnings
that only show up if you use -Wall instead of -W.

-- 
Dave Menendez <dave at zednenem.com>
<http://www.eyrie.org/~zednenem/>
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