Proposal: Add readMaybe (and possibly readEither) to Prelude, make Haddocks for read more cautionary

[Simon Jakobi]

2016-12-28 5:46 GMT+01:00 David Feuer <david.feuer at gmail.com>:
> >     > If there's
> > any uncertainty w.r.t. the shape of the input, readMaybe or readEither
> > should be used instead.
>
>
> I would put it more strongly:
>
> read should be applied only to strings that are known to have been produced
> by methods of the Show class.

I agree, that's more clear.