[Haskell-cafe] Feature Proposal: GHC Flag for implicit external Prelude

[Bardur Arantsson]

On 2014-07-15 19:30, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 07/14/2014 11:23 PM, Andrew Gibiansky wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I would like to propose a very minor flag to add to GHC. I would like
>> GHC to have a --with-prelude flag, which would specify an alternate
>> Prelude to use instead of the default Haskell prelude. 
>>
>> This would have an effect similar to -XNoImplicitPrelude and an additional
>>
>> import MyNewPrelude
>>
>> in the source file. It might be a /little/ different semantically, as a
>> qualified import would disable the original implicit import, just like
>> it does with the default Haskell prelude. 
>>
> 
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> 
> We went down this road once before with -fglasgow-exts. Eventually, we
> all realized it was much better to place the required extensions in
> pragmas at the top of the file.
> 

Except "we" don't :). "We" use flags in the .cabal file. Or, at least I
do. Explicitness certainly sometimes has great value, but not always.

Regards,