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

[Simon Jakobi]

2017-01-03 15:11 GMT+01:00 Henning Thielemann <lemming at henning-thielemann.de>:
> On Tue, 3 Jan 2017, Edward Kmett wrote:
>
>> From the discussion so far, feedback seems overwhelmingly positive on
>> making the change, so everything I say here just assumes we're going
>> forward.
>
>
> I do not understand the feedback this way. There were strong arguments
> against adding and I thought that we do not simply count votes.

I have to agree that the feedback on this mailing list was IMHO a bit
less than "overwhelmingly positive" so far. There was some feedback on
the r/haskell thread [1] where I had linked my proposal, and that was
IMO quite enthusiastic.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/5kobcf/proposal_add_readmaybe_and_possibly_readeither_to/