Prelude not in haskell98?

[Isaac Dupree]

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Stefan O'Rear wrote:
>> Right, the problem is that if Prelude was in haskell98 then it wouldn't
>> be possible to have a program that /didn't/ depend on haskell98 (short
>> of -fno-implicit-prelude extensions, or having a Prelude in both (which
>> would mean you couldn't depend on both base and haskell98)).
> 
> There's also a pragmatic reason.  Currently it is impossible to have a
> cycle of module imports cross package boundaries; so if the Prelude was
> in haskell98, then (since the Prelude depends on non-haskell98 base
> modules for its implementation) *Nothing* in base could use the prelude.

(Assuming haskell98 depends on base currently)  It seems we would want
haskell98 to re-export base's Prelude.  It's just that that's not
implemented in released-ghc package management code.

Isaac

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