[Haskell-cafe] [ANN] acme-dont-1.2 - a "don't" construct

Hello all, I have taken over the maintainership of acme-dont, and am pleased to announce a new acme-dont release on Hackage[1]. acme-dont provides a `don't` function, which does not execute its argument. For example, the following code will not print anything: import Acme.Dont (don't) quiet :: IO () quiet = don't $ putStrLn "You'll never see this on stdout" New in this release: * `don't` has been generalised from `Monad` to `Applicative`. If you have been waiting since GHC 8.0.1's release in 2016[2] to use `don't` with `-XApplicativeDo`, wait no longer. * A test suite, to ensure that `don't` does not do anything. Previous versions could have been defined as `don't = void` for all we knew. Also, the acme-dont community now has a new home on sourcehut. On there, you can find the following invaluable resources: * A source repository[3], to track further developement and new ways of not doing things, with a commit history reconstructed from the release tarballs uploaded to Hackage. * A mailing list[4] for the acme-dont community to discuss the best ways of not doing things. * A bug tracker[5] to handle reports, in case someone observes acme-dont doing something. * Continuous integration[6], to ensure that acme-dont continues to not do things across multiple versions of GHC. I would like to thank Gracjan Polak for uploading the initial releases of `acme-dont`, and for maintaining the package these past eleven years. I do not intend to betray the responsibility he has assigned me in handing over this critical package. Best, -- Jack [1]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/acme-dont-1.2 [2]: https://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_8_0_1 [3]: https://git.sr.ht/~jack/acme-dont [4]: https://lists.sr.ht/~jack/acme-dont-discuss [5]: https://todo.sr.ht/~jack/acme-dont [6]: https://builds.sr.ht/~jack/acme-dont