Primitive types and Prelude shenanigans

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk qrczak@knm.org.pl
28 Feb 2001 15:17:02 GMT


Wed, 28 Feb 2001 02:05:27 -0800, Simon Peyton-Jones <simonpj@microsoft.com> pisze:

> If someone cares enough to do the design work, and actively wants
> the result, I'll see how hard it is to implement.

IMHO it should not be done only because it's possible. If a part
of Prelude is to be replaceable, there should be a chance that it's
useful for something.

You can't replace the whole Prelude anyway, e.g. (->) and Integer
don't look as if it was possible for them.

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