[Haskell-cafe] Re: Decoupling type classes (e.g. Applicative)?

[Henning Thielemann]

Sönke Hahn schrieb:
>> I have been thinking for a while that it might be worth defining a
>> Prelude2, which corrects the known problems with the Prelude. Over time,
>> people could migrate to using Prelude2. It would probably take years to be
>> widely adopted, but at least there would be light at the end of the
>> tunnel.
> 
> There are some (at least one) libraries that try to do that, for example:
> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/numeric-prelude

And there was also an effort for the rest of the Prelude:
  http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/The_Other_Prelude