[Haskell-cafe] Why the Prelude must die

ajb at spamcop.net ajb at spamcop.net
Sat Mar 24 22:08:48 EDT 2007


G'day all.

Quoting Sven Panne <sven.panne at aedion.de>:

> Even though I think that the current Prelude is far from perfect, one should
> not forget that is a very solid foundation of a "common language": If one
> sees e.g. '(.)' or 'map', it is immediately clear to everybody what this
> means, [...]

Unless you import Data.Map, of course.

Cheers,
Andrew Bromage


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