[Haskell-cafe] Why the Prelude must die

[David House]

On 24/03/07, Stefan O'Rear <stefanor at cox.net> wrote:
> This is a ranty request for comments, and the more replies the better.

Without responding to any particular comment, my opinion is that we
should have a minimal Prelude with functions like (.) that couldn't be
reasonably redefined in any function. Most of the list functions
should have to be imported, to encourage people to use a Map or Array
and so on. Read should be in Text.Read to encourage people to use
Parsec and so on.

I wouldn't necessarily be against a minimal Prelude/expanded Prelude
split determined by a 'module M where' declaration, as suggested by
Sebastian.

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-David House, dmhouse at gmail.com