Proposal: keep Data.Map.foldWithKey

[Christian Maeder]

Am 14.01.2011 13:47, schrieb Ross Paterson:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 01:13:46PM +0100, Christian Maeder wrote:
>> The problem of adding a new function and deprecating an old one in the
>> same release is, that sources modified according to the deprecation
>> cannot be compiled with a previous compiler release.
> 
> Yes, you'd need ifdefs to do this, but waiting another year is just
> too slow.  It's a trade-off, to be sure.

Before using ifdefs I (and maybe others too) would revert the change and
ignore the deprecation warning (for one major release), thus defeating
the purpose of deprecations.

Why the hurry to deprecate?

Christian