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

[Tom Murphy]

I'm -1 on deprecating read if we don't provide a safe replacement in the
Prelude.

Tom

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 1:40 PM, Mario Blažević <mblazevic at stilo.com> wrote:

> On 2017-01-03 09:17 AM, David Feuer wrote:
>
>> While I don't often agree with Henning, it seems that the notion of
>> (quasi?)deprecating read is somewhat more popular than the notion of
>> adding replacements for it.
>>
>>
> I haven't spoken so far, but that's also my impression and my preference
> as well.
>
>
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