-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Stefan O'Rear wrote:
Right, the problem is that if Prelude was in haskell98 then it wouldn't be possible to have a program that /didn't/ depend on haskell98 (short of -fno-implicit-prelude extensions, or having a Prelude in both (which would mean you couldn't depend on both base and haskell98)).
There's also a pragmatic reason. Currently it is impossible to have a cycle of module imports cross package boundaries; so if the Prelude was in haskell98, then (since the Prelude depends on non-haskell98 base modules for its implementation) *Nothing* in base could use the prelude.
(Assuming haskell98 depends on base currently) It seems we would want haskell98 to re-export base's Prelude. It's just that that's not implemented in released-ghc package management code. Isaac -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGZfpSHgcxvIWYTTURAhPvAJwIe+CTJnOBpOLQohbK+kC8Rg2XawCeK+E0 H8vIR1fCNZE9C2/dMLXLvQw= =aMyC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----