Re: deprecating
Brent Yorgey <[email protected]>
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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 > <[email protected]> wrote: > > As discussed in Trac #6032 I am deprecating > > > > Rank2Types > > > > PolymorphicComponents > > > > in favour of the single flag > > > > RankNTypes > > I'm fine with making the changes to cabal, but before I do, I want to > make sure that we really want to do this. I did a quick investigation > of how many modules need to be updated on Hackage. It's about 775. > That will require quite a lot of work by quite a lot of people. Could > we instead have Rank2Types be an alias for RankNTypes? "What will be the least work?" seems a relatively poor basis for making decisions. And it really isn't "quite a lot of work". Changing "Rank2Types" to "RankNTypes" is hardly any work at all. -Brent