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

[Sönke Hahn]

> 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

Sönke