ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.0.1 Release Candidate 2

[Isaac Dupree]

On 10/30/10 04:43, Bas van Dijk wrote:
> Which is to be expected because the Prelude is imported implicitly.

No it's not, because you import Prelude explicitly ("import Prelude   ( 
fromInteger )").  In any Haskell, Prelude is only implicitly imported if 
there are no explicit imports of Prelude in that module. 
http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/modules.html#sect5.6.1

The only thing that could be called "redundant" is that when you write a 
number, it actually calls the thing defined as GHC.Num.fromInteger -- 
whether or not it has been imported --, which is incidentally the same 
thing as you import in that line "import Prelude ( fromInteger )"; And 
similarly for the other built-in syntax.

-Isaac