[Agda] More aggressive `with`: Please check your Agda-2.4.2 developments!

[Andreas Abel]

P.S.: When you test your developments, please report also "no breakage". 
  Thanks, Andreas

On 19.11.2015 14:16, Andreas Abel wrote:
> Dear Agda users and developers,
>
> please check your larger Agda-2.4.2 developments with the version at
>
>    https://github.com/andreasabel/agda-issue-1692/tree/maint-2.4.2
>
> You can get it with
>
>    git clone https://github.com/andreasabel/agda-issue-1692.git
>    cd agda-issue-1692
>    git checkout maint-2.4.2
>    make install-bin
>
> This version is making `with` more agressive and hopefully more
> intuitive (at least it removes the stumbling block reported in issue
> #1692).
>
> The change is not fully backwards compatible. However, the breakage
> should be small. Nothing broke for the std-lib. Only a single test case
> broke, which uses with on a function argument (a variable):
> https://github.com/agda/agda/blob/master/test/lib-succeed/Issue846/DivModUtils.agda#L99
>
> The breakage was easy to fix, the new `with` is simpler: the `with` on
> the variable could be removed.
>
> Please check the amount of breakage on your Agda developments and report
> back, with self-contained test-cases (e.g. as tar-balls and repo links) on
>
>    https://github.com/agda/agda/issues/1692
>
> This let's me evaluate whether this commit can go into the maintenance
> version or not (in case the breakage is too big).
>
> Response time: 5 work days.
>
> Cheers,
> Andreas
>


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