<div dir="ltr">I don't think it's fair to say it's not being heeded, a few folks proposed solution including usage of custom prelude and such... which seems quite similar to that feature from Racket you mention (delta the the extension thing, but solution can be found if there is enough interest for it).<div><br></div><div>I feel like with a bit of good will we could go a long way.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 April 2016 at 14:35, Rustom Mody <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rustompmody@gmail.com" target="_blank">rustompmody@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 2:57 AM, Johannes Waldmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johannes.waldmann@htwk-leipzig.de" target="_blank">johannes.waldmann@htwk-leipzig.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">> <a href="https://twitter.com/headinthebox/status/652834731806052352" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/headinthebox/status/652834731806052352</a><br>
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This mentions and :: Foldable t => t Bool -> Bool<br>
as an example of "abstract nonsense".<div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>I find it sad... that people like Erik Meijer, Mark Lentczer... (even Doug McIllroy recently demonstrated that there are 2⁹⁹ dialects of haskell!!) are not being heeded<br></div><div>And this complaint could be greatly alleviated with one little leaf drawn from racket -- language-packs: <a href="https://docs.racket-lang.org/drracket/extending-drracket.html" target="_blank">teachpacks</a><br></div><div>Along with the single lightweight directive <a href="https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/Module_Syntax.html#%28part._hash-lang%29" target="_blank">#lang</a><br><br></div><div>It may naturally be asked how is #lang different from ghc's language "-X" options<br></div><div>A teachpack would be a bunch of coherent -X options maybe along with a suitable prelude<br></div></div>
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