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

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David House wrote:

On 24/03/07, Stefan O'Rear wrote:

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This is a ranty request for comments, and the more replies the better.

Without responding to any particular comment, my opinion is that we should have a minimal Prelude with functions like (.) that couldn't be reasonably redefined in any function.

I can recall two variations on (.)... Strict composition, perhaps (.!), that is somehow strict in the functions that are its arguments. Unicode composition, i.e. use the Unicode character for function composition (?) instead of the overloaded (with module system syntax) "." symbol Not that these are worthy alternatives for our Prelude, just reasons that I don't entirely like the idea of any implicitly included prelude. Isaac -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGD57RHgcxvIWYTTURAjwuAKCeX5KJ+511lctcC5EXJ+7kYtsNqACfd/GS PSteOUuiJqYAaaJBwiblaso= =U/j/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----