[Haskell-beginners] cascade of if statements

[Brandon Allbery]

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Kim-Ee Yeoh <ky3 at atamo.com> wrote:

> <tangential rant> There is a reason why the prelude is called as such and
> not "the standard library", which is a term I don't think you can find in
> the language specs.


The word "standard" does not appear as such, but it can be inferred...

http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/haskellpa2.html#x20-192000II
Haskell 2010 Language Report:  The Haskell 2010 Libraries

Note however that the language of the Report's preface applies:  this is
not intended to be a standard library in the sense usually meant by
newcomers, but a conservative minimum required by all conformant
implementations.  (It's also not limited to the Prelude; neither was
Haskell98's version.)

-- 
brandon s allbery kf8nh                               sine nomine associates
allbery.b at gmail.com                                  ballbery at sinenomine.net
unix/linux, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure          http://sinenomine.net
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/beginners/attachments/20121101/2694d554/attachment.htm>