Export ($!) from Data.Function

[Yuras Shumovich]

On Fri, 2015-04-24 at 22:56 +1000, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
> On 24 April 2015 at 22:29, Yuras Shumovich <shumovichy at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Right now ($!) operator can be imported either from Prelude or GHC.Base.
> > The later is specific to GHC, so it makes sense to avoid it.
> >
> > There are reasons to avoid Prelude too (e.g. because it pollutes name
> > space, changes too often, etc.) We need a home module for all identifies
> > from Prelude, so that one can import them without importing Prelude.
> >
> > Data.Functor seems to be a good candidate for ($!) operator home module.
> > It already exports ($) operator.
> 
> Except $! is already exported by Prelude, so it's likely to break code
> by removing it from there.

I propose to export ($!) from Data.Function. I don't propose to remove
it from Prelude. Just like ($) is already exported from both Prelude and
Data.Function.

PS: sorry, I typed Data.Functor in the initial email body. The correct
module name is Data.Function.

> 
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Yuras
> >
> >
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