On 25/03/07, Ian Lynagh
You wouldn't have to import a number of different modules like Data.Function, you could just import Prelude.
I guess what I was getting at was that Haskell is very good at blurring the distinction between userland function and actual syntax. E.g. to the untrained eye 'otherwise' may seem like a keyword, but it's defined in Data.Bool. Functions like map and catamorphisms like maybe and foldr are used just like control structures, not to mention things like when and unless which are built to directly emulate control structures in other languages. As real control structures, like if and case, are always in scope, having _no_ functions imported by default would drive an unnatural wedge between function and control structure. -- -David House, dmhouse@gmail.com