Proposal to deprecate and then drop fromJust

[Bardur Arantsson]

On 24-02-2015 06:42, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We currently have in the Data.Maybe module from base:
> 
>      fromJust :: Maybe a -> a
> 
> which newbies often find using hoogle or other search tools and is
> a huge trap. *Every* usage of the above can be replaced by using
> 
>       fromMaybe :: a -> Maybe a -> a
> 
> which forces the user to provide a default value for the case where
> the Maybe a is a Nothing.
> 
> The idea would be to deprecate fromMaybe for 7.12 and remove it
> completely later.
> 
> Comments?
> 

How much code on Hackage is currently using fromJust? (A rough estimate
by group would probably be sufficient.)

Regards,