I liked Andreas's idea (cited below). Hence the new package
prelude-prime.
https://github.com/feuerbach/prelude-prime
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/prelude-prime
Pull requests are welcome, but let's stick to widely agreed changes
(like the Foldable/Traversable one). I think one of the reasons why
other Preludes haven't been adopted is because they were too radical.
Let's see whether people here can put their code where their mouth is :)
Roman
* Andreas Abel
Maybe instead of fiddling with the current Prelude (which might break backwards compatibility), we should design a new prelude which is not automatically loaded but contains roughly the current prelude (with the list functions generalized to collections) plus the "modern" type class stack: Functor, Applicative, Monad, Foldable, Traversable, Monoid etc.
I am willing to write
{-# LANGUAGE NoImplicitPrelude #-} import Base
if I get a decent, "modern" standard set of functions that could be considered as the base vocabulary of modern Haskell programmers...
I just do not want to think about the democratic process involved in this design...
Cheers, Andreas