Drastic Prelude changes imminent

[Michael Snoyman]

On Tue Feb 03 2015 at 6:26:58 PM Erik Hesselink <hesselink at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com>
> wrote:
> > Now that I actually write this all out, I'm beginning to think I *am*
> > opposed to the proposal overall, though not by a wide margin. It seems to
> > fall into the "too little, too late" category: the benefits it brings are
> > not massive due to my three points above, and the disruption introduced
> to
> > the ecosystem is potential massive.
>
> What is the potential massive disruption?
>
> Erik
>

1. Breakage of existing code due to lack of type inference
2. Breakage of existing tutorials/documentation
3. Confusing error messages

I didn't really want to drill into it because that seems to be the point of
discussion of this entire thread.
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