Re: Polymorphism in the Prelude

How do you know if alternate prelude are gaining traction? Libraries authors are always going to hesitate to include another package, but they are really for application developers. Are you using download statistics? On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Edward Kmett wrote:

Note: we already have several of these alternate Preludes out there, which have gained little traction, largely because many users aren't willing to incur another package dependency for convenience.

prelude-prime classy-prelude fugue

-Edward

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On Jun 16, 2014, at 9:46 AM, Richard Eisenberg wrote:

I would wager that if these Poly modules were out in the wild today, we might all grumble at them, but I don't know if there would be a movement to change the Prelude.

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