Re: [Haskell-cafe] Shrinking the Prelude: The "categorical" approach

take map for example, and fmap, I don't think they should be named different (fmap is ugly, not suggestive, and conceptually the same). mplus could be renamed (++) (they are conceptually the same

Wouldn't this raise the same problems monad comprehensions raise? Worse yet, beginners can't start off with lists -- and understand error messages -- without knowing about monads first!