Make Prelude's map = fmap
Henning Thielemann
lemming at henning-thielemann.de
Mon Jun 24 09:20:34 CEST 2013
On Sun, 23 Jun 2013, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Nikita Volkov <nikita.y.volkov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 23, 2013, at 10:11 PM, Henning Thielemann <lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:
> > If in future Prelude moves more and more to one most general function that does everything
> given the right type, then I am really concerning to use NoImplicitPrelude in all my modules and
> use a custom Prelude or none at all.
>
> That's exactly what I am doing now and the very existence of a dozen of "prelude" projects on hackage
> suggests that I'm hardly alone in that.
>
>
> Except that most of them are making things *more* general, whereas Henning believes polymorphism is evil and
> confusing.
I use 'fmap' a lot myself. I only do not see why to alter Prelude, because
you can import everything you need from Data.List, Data.Functor and
friends.
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