On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 04:53:32PM +, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
See my response on http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/6032#comment:6
Not sure what the best path is here
FWIW, I agree with Simon.
And even if Rank2Types /is/ left as a permanent alias, I don't see a
reason not to make
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones
simo...@microsoft.com wrote:
Do you mean “silently and forever”? Deprecation simply means that
everything continues to work, but you get a little nudge to change. Isn’t
that what it’s for? If you treat deprecation as equivalent to error,
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 09:38:44AM -0700, Johan Tibell wrote:
Hi Simon,
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 4:49 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones
simo...@microsoft.com wrote:
As discussed in Trac #6032 I am deprecating
Rank2Types
PolymorphicComponents
in favour of the single flag
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones
simo...@microsoft.comwrote:
Dear maintainers of
bytestring
cabal
vector
time
dph
Hi, Simon -
How did you come up with this list? It is missing the vast majority of
users of Rank2Types.
Most people
Based on repeated recent experience, I expect getting rid of Rank2Types to be
another substantial source of make-work for library authors. The GHC upgrade
path has been very bumpy indeed recently, and this seems assured to continue
that unhappy trend. I respectfully request that you silently
