
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 07:15:11PM +0000, Aaron Denney wrote:
On 2005-10-13, Stephane Bortzmeyer
wrote: On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 11:29:57AM +0000, Robin Green
wrote a message of 22 lines which said: ... and, in the case of the Standard Prelude section, or equivalent, a specification of well-understood functions that the spec authors agree "should" be provided in all implementations. ... (It is, however, one of the "must haves" for Haskell to be considered for use in production systems.)
Regexps and XML are, IMHO, also "must haves".
Bah, simple libraries. They don't have to be part of the Standard Prelude.
I completely agree. I'd rather decrease the number of libraries defined in the language itself and decouple library standardization from the definition of the language standard. Libraries can much more easily be developed and improved. -- David Roundy