While you're looking at the code for time, Ashley, I've got a question
about its relation to old-time: shouldn't System.Time have a DEPRECATED
pragma, pointing to time? The comments and package name say old-time is
deprecated in favour of time.
I looked into this; it's not quite that simple. System.Time exports
ClockTime, which is still used in System.Directory.getModificationTime. So
in order to properly deprecate System.Time, we have to supply an
alternative to System.Directory.getModificationTime, which would introduce
a dependency on the time package, and directory is currently a core package.
Thanks for checking, Simon. But wouldn't that simply mean
replacing old-time with time in the corelibs, keeping old-time
around for one or two releases only to get the deprecation
message out? Perhaps time could even provide a compat
module for the transition period, so that old-time could be
dropped immediately, while current old-time clients transition
from the compat module to proper time modules.
Claus
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