#4994: Deprecate Control.Exception.blocked in favour of getMaskingState
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Reporter: basvandijk | Owner:
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: normal | Component: libraries/base
Version: 7.0.1 | Keywords:
Testcase: | Blockedby:
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I [http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2011-February/015859.html
proposed] deprecating `Control.Exception.blocked` in
favour of `getMaskingState`.
The term "blocked" refers to the old way of dealing with asynchronous
exceptions (`block`/`unblock`). It can also be a bit confusing to which
"blocked" property it refers: blocked asynchronous exceptions, or a
blocked thread.
Note that `blocked` is already listed in the section
[http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/base/4.3.0.0/doc/html
/Control-Exception.html#12 "(deprecated) Asynchronous exception control"]
There were no objections and one +1 from Simon Marlow.
The patch is attached.
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