Proposal: Use (.) and id from Control.Category in Prelude

[Daniel Gorín]

On 15 Jun 2014, at 16:13, Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr at gnu.org> wrote:

> I wonder if Haskell could be extended to be able to write something like
> 
> import Data.Category
> 
> and have the more general versions of (.) and id automatically shadow
> the monomorphic versions brought in scope by the Prelude.
> 
> Just a thought (which is probably not that new)

There was a brief discussion about it some time ago:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.glasgow.user/23719