Why the Prelude must die

[Jeffrey Yasskin]

On 3/28/07, David House <dmhouse at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28/03/07, Simon Marlow <simonmarhaskell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I support both reducing the prelude to just a few commonly used combinators, and
> >   requiring an explicit import Prelude.
>
> Just to clear things up: would you need to do an import Prelude to get
> at these few commonly used combinators, or would the import pull in
> the 'wider' Prelude, with a more expansive selection, more akin to the
> current Prelude?

I would vote for a Combinators module with the most important
combinators, and a somewhat larger Prelude to support quick scripts
and demonstrations.

Jeffrey