Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why the Prelude must die

On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 10:08:48PM -0400, ajb@spamcop.net wrote:

G'day all.

Quoting Sven Panne :

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Even though I think that the current Prelude is far from perfect, one should not forget that is a very solid foundation of a "common language": If one sees e.g. '(.)' or 'map', it is immediately clear to everybody what this means, [...]

Unless you import Data.Map, of course.

Wouldn't this be a non-issue if the "map" in Prelude was fmap? Jason Creighton