On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Roman Cheplyaka <r...@ro-che.info> wrote:
> On 09/01/15 12:02, Jan Stolarek wrote: > >> We could file a tracking bug against the 7.14 milestone. > > I was considering that but we don't have 7.14 milestone yet. > > > >> Just curious, is there a way to keep these functions for backwards > compat > >> in 7.14 or is that unfeasible? > > They could stay, technically that's not a problem. But I'm adding new > functions that can do the > > same thing (and more), so we have redundancy. > > Can you hide them in the haddock but leave in the module, so that we > don't break existing code? > I agree. You'll get rid of the redundancy in the library by removing it but you're users will have to live with #if MIN_VERSION_template_haskell(X,Y,X) -- new way #else -- old way #endif for 3+ years (which is typically how many GHC versions popular libraries try to support).
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