thenIO removal

[Simon Peyton Jones]

It's not a big deal.  

You can probably replace both those bindIOName uses with bindMName (i.e (>>=)), in TcRnDriver.  That will just make GHCi generate code with uses of overloaded (>>=) that must be evaluated, rather than calling bindIO directly.  It should work just fine, but it'll make everything a tiny bit slower and more indirect.  If it simplified the code a lot, then fine, but it doesn't really.  So I'm inclined to leave it.

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Joachim
| Breitner
| Sent: 03 November 2014 08:22
| To: ghc-devs at haskell.org
| Subject: Re: thenIO removal
| 
| Hi,
| 
| 
| Am Sonntag, den 02.11.2014, 20:10 -0500 schrieb David Feuer:
| > GHC.Base has a function, thenIO, that isn't used anywhere in the
| > libraries or compiler, and isn't exported anywhere "public". But for
| > some reason, it's listed in compiler/prelude/PrelNames.lhs, which
| > causes a validation failure if I remove it. Is there a reason that a
| > completely unused function is wired in? Is it a historical artifact,
| > or an optimization that was never completed, or something else? Should
| > I wipe it out of PrelNames, or do we want to use it for something?
| 
| I find uses in compiler/typecheck/TcRnDriver.lhs in tcUserStmt, it seems
| to be related to ghci’s support for IO actions. If you can rewrite that
| easily, then it surely can go, but there likely is a reason for it. If
| you find that reason, a Note would be appreciated.
| 
| 
| Greeting,
| Joachim
| 
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