On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Bas van Dijk <v.dijk....@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11 July 2012 20:49, Henning Thielemann <lemm...@henning-thielemann.de> > wrote: >> I think the idea was to have Unsafe modules and move the unsafe functions >> there. :-) > > Indeed. I don't see the point about having .Safe modules. Modules > should be safe by default as you mentioned before. I guess the reason > we have .Safe modules in base and vector is for backwards > compatibility. > > The ideal, but currently, impossible way of dealing with this is to > mark the _export_ of unsafe functions in a module as DEPRECATED and in > a later version remove the unsafe functions and mark the module as > Trustworthy. However this requires support for deprecating exports: > > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4879
But why? The number of people who will benefit from this mass deprecation/mass migration is tiny. -- Johan _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform
