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A comment on Haskell: The Bad Parts, part 2 (2020). Parent comment

Re:Haskell: The Bad Parts, part 2 (2020) by tome on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @12:12PM (#26091912)
> We should not take them away and break thousands of projects

How about the middle ground of marking them as deprecated and not to be used in new code?

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Re:Haskell: The Bad Parts, part 2 (2020) by dllthomas on Monday February 22, 2021 @04:26AM (#26222435)
And I mean, they're perfectly suitable for futzing around in ghci. I think we need different preludes for different contexts.
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Re:Haskell: The Bad Parts, part 2 (2020) by willtim on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @12:51PM (#26092447)
Yes, deprecation is fine, as long as they are not removed.
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