Remove some apparerntly dead TH functions

[Antoine Latter]

Do we know if any publicly released packages on Hackage would break from
this removal?

Not that that should be a blocker for a sensible change.

Thanks,
Antoine
On Oct 21, 2010 3:15 AM, "Simon Peyton-Jones" <simonpj at microsoft.com> 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
>
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