Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Interest in helping w/ Haskell standard

Ketil Malde writes:

David Roundy writes:

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Bah, simple libraries. They don't have to be part of the Standard Prelude.

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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.

I'd vote for moving map, null and lookup from Prelude to an explicit List import (like insert already is).

I hope we decide to reduce the size of the Prelude to the minimum possible. Most of what is currently in there can be more conveniently dumped into libraries. Then we could have one or more standard aggregations of useful libraries, e.g. BeginnersPrelude which has no classes, IntermediatePrelude, and AdvancedPrelude. Regards, Malcolm