Proposal: deprecate Prelude.read

[Emily Pillmore]

NOPE.

On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 8:31 PM, Fumiaki Kinoshita < fumiexcel at gmail.com > wrote:

> 
> It is a partial function that does not provide a call stack, and it's very
> slow too.
> 
> 
> 
> I propose deprecating Prelude. read ( http://prelude.read/ ). Adding
> deprecation should not break anything substantial because Hackage rejects
> -Werror (application code using -Werror is likely to experience a lot more
> breakage anyway, and I'd say it's their fault if it fails to build due to
> a use of read along with -Werror).
> 
> 
> Of course those who still want to use Prelude. read ( http://prelude.read/
> ) can totally ignore warnings. I believe this proposal is not that
> controversial.
> 
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