[Haskell-cafe] Why the Prelude must die

[Jason Creighton]

On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 10:08:48PM -0400, ajb at spamcop.net wrote:
> 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.

Wouldn't this be a non-issue if the "map" in Prelude was fmap?

Jason Creighton