Proposal: Deprecate decodeUtf8
Niklas Hambüchen
mail at nh2.me
Thu Aug 18 09:08:25 UTC 2016
I propose to add a deprecation pragma to the partial function
Data.Text.decodeUtf8.
I see checks or decoding failure accidentally omitted from production
code every week. I claim decodeUtf8 to be *the* most abused partial
function in the current Haskell ecosystem (with `head` and `tail` at
least everybody knows they should feel bad when typing them down).
decodeUtf8' with custom error message is a better solution in all cases
I have seen and can come up with.
I therefore propose:
* Add deprecation pragma to decodeUtf8
* Do it with Text.Lazy and *16/*32 functions too
* But keep them indefinitely (we don't want to break compiles)
I believe that deprecating decodeUtf8 will result in lots of useful
warnings across the world every day and less software crashing at runtime.
Discussion period 2 months.
Thanks!
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