Improving Random

[Markert, Leonhard]

Zemyla, Richard and Carter: thanks for your questions! The proposal is
large, and though we've tried to document things thoroughly (see links at
the end of the email), the motivation behind and consequences of some
decisions are not obvious.

I don't want this proposal to stall. If you have follow-up questions,
please ask them! If your questions have been answered by one of the
detailed replies in this thread, would you mind saying so?

Haddocks:
https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.githubusercontent.com/idontgetoutmuch/random/haddock-preview/doc/index.html
Motivation and design:
https://github.com/idontgetoutmuch/random/blob/v1.2-release-notes/RELEASE-NOTES-v1.2.md
Benchmarks:
https://github.com/idontgetoutmuch/random/blob/v1.2-proposal/CHANGELOG.md#benchmarks

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 1:24 PM <dominic at steinitz.org> wrote:

> Hi Carter,
>
> With respect to migration, most people will need to make no changes. We
> have built all the packages in hackage against the proposed new version
> (1.2) and there have been very few breakages and, where there have been,
> the fix is very simple. For example, for `buffon-machines` the patch is just
>
> -import System.Random
> +import System.Random hiding (uniform)
>
>
> So most people will have zero pain and we have PRs prepared for those few
> packages that are impacted.
>
> I think Alexey has already answered the question on deprecation.
>
> Dominic Steinitz
> dominic at steinitz.org
> http://idontgetoutmuch.org
> Twitter: @idontgetoutmuch
>
>
> On 27 May 2020, at 03:13, Carter Schonwald <carter.schonwald at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Zemyla!
>
>
> ...
>
>
> Nothing is set in stone about deprecation and migration story, cause
> improving everything and making sure everyone has a zero pain/ or at least
> tolerable upgrade path is step zero.  (And making sure good stable
> interfaces persists is key! )
>
>
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