[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: new bridge! (prelude-prime)

[Roman Cheplyaka]

I liked Andreas's idea (cited below). Hence the new package
prelude-prime.

https://github.com/feuerbach/prelude-prime
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/prelude-prime

Pull requests are welcome, but let's stick to widely agreed changes
(like the Foldable/Traversable one). I think one of the reasons why
other Preludes haven't been adopted is because they were too radical.

Let's see whether people here can put their code where their mouth is :)

Roman

* Andreas Abel <andreas.abel at ifi.lmu.de> [2013-05-20 13:26:05+0200]
> Maybe instead of fiddling with the current Prelude (which might break
> backwards compatibility), we should design a new prelude which is not
> automatically loaded but contains roughly the current prelude (with
> the list functions generalized to collections) plus the "modern" type
> class stack: Functor, Applicative, Monad, Foldable, Traversable,
> Monoid etc.
> 
> I am willing to write
> 
>   {-# LANGUAGE NoImplicitPrelude #-}
>   import Base
> 
> if I get a decent, "modern" standard set of functions that could be
> considered as the base vocabulary of modern Haskell programmers...
> 
> I just do not want to think about the democratic process involved in
> this design...
> 
> Cheers,
> Andreas