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

Henning Thielemann lemming at henning-thielemann.de
Tue Jan 3 20:32:39 UTC 2017


On Tue, 3 Jan 2017, Tom Murphy wrote:

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

The total replacement in Prelude is reads, the convenient replacement is 
Text.Read.readMaybe.


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