classP recently deleted from TH.Lib

Gregory Collins greg at gregorycollins.net
Wed May 14 15:53:46 UTC 2014


On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Richard Eisenberg <eir at cis.upenn.edu>wrote:

> We could, of course, just leave the functions there with new
> implementations, but that feels like it could accumulate legacy functions
> over time.


I think the ultimate goal of removing the function was not unwise of you,
but the right thing to do here would be to write a reimplementation, mark
it as {-# DEPRECATED #-}, and give a timetable for its future removal. This
gives users time to adjust and minimizes breakage.

G
-- 
Gregory Collins <greg at gregorycollins.net>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/attachments/20140514/0b7de829/attachment.html>


More information about the ghc-devs mailing list