Prelude not in haskell98?

[Iavor Diatchki]

Hi,
Just curious, what external modules does the Prelude depend on?
The only unusual feature that I can think of in the GHC Prelude is the
fact that the partial functions throw exceptions, and so perhaps the
Prelude implementation uses some extra modules for that?
-Iavor


On 6/6/07, Simon Marlow <simonmarhaskell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Isaac Dupree wrote:
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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.
>
> Yes, packages that re-export modules would be a useful feature.  Then we could
> have a version of the base package that only exported the compiler-independent
> modules, for example.
>
> Cheers,
>         Simon
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