Proposal: deprecate Prelude.read

[Georgi Lyubenov]

I've started up this discussion over at the hlint issue tracker too:
https://github.com/ndmitchell/hlint/issues/1307

On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 11:39 AM Andreas Abel <andreas.abel at ifi.lmu.de>
wrote:

> +1 to promoting `readMaybe`.
>
> HLint could replace `read` by `fromMaybe undefined . readMaybe`.
> Partiality can be debugged better when it is in the application, rather
> than in the library.
>
> On 2021-10-15 10:05, Henning Thielemann wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 14 Oct 2021, David Feuer wrote:
> >
> >> If it doesn't give a call stack, we can fix that. While I avoid using
> >> it myself, and I think it's much better to use (at least)
> >> Text.readMaybe, I'm not convinced that the breakage to existing
> >> educational material is worth the benefit of actually removing it.
> >
> > One can use HLint to flag uses of 'read'.
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