Importing more modules by default

Hi there, It seems like every Haskell program I write imports the following modules: Control.Monad Control.Applicative Data.Maybe Data.List Is there a good reason why these modules aren't imported by default? When I write a simple script usually a 1/4th of the script is just imports, and my code just looks uglier. Adit

Hello Aditya,
you could write a script to generate a starter file for yourself. I do
something like that with my own latex documents. Or have your own special
module that reexports all of those that you import for you own projects.
Its very easy to write your own module that reExports other modules. try it
out. many libraries that you use, such as containers, do that
theres enough variety and complexity to nontrivial projects that such a
"enforced import" would end badly
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 10:23 PM, aditya bhargava
Hi there, It seems like every Haskell program I write imports the following modules:
Control.Monad Control.Applicative Data.Maybe Data.List
Is there a good reason why these modules aren't imported by default? When I write a simple script usually a 1/4th of the script is just imports, and my code just looks uglier.
Adit
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I've started using BasicPrelude with -XNoImplicitPrelude in all of my
code. It imports all of those and some other stuff as well (text related
functions). Cuts down on my imports by a little over half. Kind of wish
it could be made the default.
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 10:23 PM, aditya bhargava
Hi there, It seems like every Haskell program I write imports the following modules:
Control.Monad Control.Applicative Data.Maybe Data.List
Is there a good reason why these modules aren't imported by default? When I write a simple script usually a 1/4th of the script is just imports, and my code just looks uglier.
Adit
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Cool, BasicPrelude solves my problem perfectly!
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 7:04 AM, David McBride
I've started using BasicPrelude with -XNoImplicitPrelude in all of my code. It imports all of those and some other stuff as well (text related functions). Cuts down on my imports by a little over half. Kind of wish it could be made the default.
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 10:23 PM, aditya bhargava
wrote:
Hi there, It seems like every Haskell program I write imports the following modules:
Control.Monad Control.Applicative Data.Maybe Data.List
Is there a good reason why these modules aren't imported by default? When I write a simple script usually a 1/4th of the script is just imports, and my code just looks uglier.
Adit
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aditya bhargava
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Carter Schonwald
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David McBride