#9499: Add -prelude-is flag -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: agibiansky | Owner: agibiansky Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.9 Keywords: flag | Operating System: Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Unknown/Multiple Difficulty: Easy (less than 1 | Type of failure: hour) | None/Unknown Blocked By: | Test Case: Related Tickets: | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- I would like GHC to have a `-prelude-is` flag, which would specify an alternate Prelude to use instead of the default Haskell prelude. The benefit this would have is that this would give alternate preludes a more first-class status. Instead of having to import an alternative prelude everywhere, you could just have a ghc-options: -prelude-is=... flag in your *.cabal file, and have a different prelude be used. This is important for my own work, as I highly prefer other preludes for my non- library development; I think this is a feature which will be very useful as Haskell develops and we try to figure out how to get rid of the warts in the current Prelude. Additional discussion here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic /haskell-cafe/NCVzXZcxNmQ -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9499 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler