On Feb 16, 2016, at 5:35 AM, Ben Gamari
Indeed. I'll just say that I envision that a beginner's prelude would be for learning and nothing more. The goal is that it would be used in the first dozen hours of picking up the language and nothing more.
I'd be interested to hear what Richard had in mind when he has time again.
Yes, that's right. And, of course, it doesn't even need to be something released with GHC. I hope to have the opportunity to teach intro Haskell in the not-too-distant future. Maybe even this coming fall. Though I have yet to look closely at Chris's book, which will be one of the first things I do to prep, I suspect I'll be writing a custom Prelude for my first few weeks of the class, eliminating all type-classes. No Foldable, no Monoid, no Num. And then, by week 3 or 4, bring all that back in. Richard