Remove deprecated quasiquote syntax

[Matthew Pickering]

Done in https://phabricator.haskell.org/D1530.

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Simon Peyton Jones
<simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:
> I'm all for it, if the broader community (e.g. the developers of those packages) are ok.
>
> Simon
>
> |  -----Original Message-----
> |  From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of
> |  Matthew Pickering
> |  Sent: 25 November 2015 12:12
> |  To: GHC developers <ghc-devs at haskell.org>
> |  Subject: Remove deprecated quasiquote syntax
> |
> |  The [$qq| quasiquote syntax has been deprecated since around 2010.
> |
> |  Is there any objection to removing the backwards compatibility now?
> |
> |  I counted 216 uses of it on hackage in a handful of packages, some in
> |  comments.
> |
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> |
> |  Here is the commit which deprecated it -
> |  https://github.com/ghc/ghc/commit/9ba922ee06b048774d7a82964867ff768a78
> |  126e
> |
> |  Matt
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