[Haskell-cafe] Re: Interesting critique of Haskell

[Brent Yorgey]

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com>
wrote:

> Darrin Thompson wrote:
>
>> 2008/5/8 Donnie Jones <donnie at darthik.com>:
>>
>>
>>> I would be interested to see an article on Haskell in the same light as
>>> this
>>> Ocaml article, aka a constructive criticism of Haskell.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> http://www.drmaciver.com/2008/02/tell-us-why-your-language-sucks/
>>
>>
>
> Impressive. He thought of a whole bunch of stuff I hadn't thought of.
>
> While I'm here - I'm aware of how you control importing [or not] from the
> Prelude. Is there a way that I can, for example, import all the stuff like
> the basic types, classes, etc., but *not* all the list-related stuff? Or is
> the Prelude not that modular?
>

Not only is the Prelude not that modular, there's not really any mechanism
to make it so.  There's no way to partition an export list in such a way
that whole chunks of it can be imported/not imported at a go.  Would that be
a nice feature?  I don't know, possibly.

-Brent
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