Export lists in modules

[Benjamin Franksen]

On Thursday 23 February 2006 09:53, Ketil Malde wrote:
> Wolfgang Jeltsch <wolfgang at jeltsch.net> writes:
> >> Personally, I would greatly prefer to have libraries that do not
> >> clash with common Prelude functions.
> >
> > I would solve this problem by reducing the Prelude to just a core. 
> > List function could go, for example, (mostly) into Data.List.
>
> If this means that you must import Data.List almost everywhere, this
> won't change anything - only add yet another import to every file.

But you could import something different instead! For instance, I can 
then easily replace Prelude stuff with Edison or some other data 
structure library. That is what the whole discussion is about.

I agree with the rest of what you wrote.

Ben