Remove some apparerntly dead TH functions

[Daniel Fischer]

+ 1

On Thursday 21 October 2010 10:14:44, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> This is a library propsal.  There are a handful of functions in the
> template-haskell package, module Language.Haskell.TH.Lib, that are
> defined in that module, but are not used, and are not exported by the
> main Template Haskell interface Language.Haskell.TH. I propose to nuke
> them. I assume no one is using them (since they are not exported by the
> main interface), and I'm not keen on the API of rename. Moreover, rename
> becomes signficantly more compilcated with the advent of view patterns.
> The functions are:
> combine :: [([(Name, Name)], Pat)] -> ([(Name, Name)], [Pat])
>   -- Seems to be a helper for rename
> rename :: Pat -> Q ([(Name, Name)], Pat)
> genpat :: Pat -> Q ((Name -> ExpQ), Pat)
> alpha :: [(Name, Name)] -> Name -> ExpQ
>
> simpleMatch :: Pat -> Exp -> Match
>   -- This is the most defensible; it's a "smart constructor"
> Deadline 2 weeks.
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4423
> Simon