Prelude not in haskell98?
Neil Mitchell
ndmitchell at gmail.com
Tue Jun 5 18:23:57 EDT 2007
Hi Iavor,
> All this seems to indicate that the Prelude is not a part of the
> "haskell98" package. Is this the case, and if so, is this
> intentional? It would be nice if we could create Cabal packages that
> explicitly indicate that the library depends only on Haskell 98
> libraries.
Its true, and its intentional. The trend nowadays is to make programs
depend only on base, not only on haskell98 - i.e. import
System.Environment (and others) instead of System. hakell98 will be
around forever, but base is the new "standard libraries" set.
Thanks
Neil
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