[Haskell-cafe] Why the Prelude must die

[Stefan O'Rear]

On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 11:40:37AM -0400, Robert Dockins wrote:
> On Saturday 24 March 2007 05:36, Sebastian Sylvan wrote:
> > The solution is simple:
> >
> > * If there is a "module M where" clause in the beginning of the file,
> > then it's a "proper" module and shouldn't import the Prelude.
> > * If there is no module declaration then it's a "quick'n dirty script"
> > and should have the Prelude implicitly imported.
> > * Interactive interpreters should probably import the Prelude.
> >
> >
> > That should take of most issues.
> 
> +1 for this opinion.  The presence/absence of the "module" declaration seems 
> like a very nice way to separate the student/newbie/just-writing-a-quick-hack 
> class of use cases from the library-maintainer/large-scale-program-author 
> class of use cases.

Thank you Sebastian, you just solved my #1 con.

Stefan