id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,os,architecture,failure,difficulty,testcase,blockedby,blocking,related
4994,Deprecate Control.Exception.blocked in favour of getMaskingState,basvandijk,simonmar,"I [http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2011-February/015859.html proposed] deprecating `Control.Exception.blocked` in
favour of `getMaskingState`.

The term ""blocked"" refers to the old way of dealing with asynchronous
exceptions (`block`/`unblock`). It can also be a bit confusing to which
""blocked"" property it refers: blocked asynchronous exceptions, or a
blocked thread.

Note that `blocked` is already listed in the section [http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/base/4.3.0.0/doc/html/Control-Exception.html#12 ""(deprecated) Asynchronous exception control""]

There were no objections and one +1 from Simon Marlow.

The patch is attached.

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