6.10.3 plans

[Sigbjorn Finne]

On 4/25/2009 07:16, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:08:38AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
>   
>> We do have a WARNING pragma, incedentally:
>>
>> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/pragmas.html#warning-deprecated-pragma
>>     
>
> I don't think that using it for this would be a good idea, though. It
> would mean that people who really do want
>     Foreign.ForeignPtr.{newForeignPtr,addForeignPtrFinalizer}
> would not be able to write warning-free code.
>   

Repeating myself, I suppose :) , but I would be happy to take that "hit"
for 6.10.3 if it avoids other GHC users from spending unproductive
time getting on top of this change. ymmv.

--sigbjorn