Re: Burning bridges

On 05/23/2013 03:22 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic < ivan.miljenovic@gmail.com> wrote:

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On 23 May 2013 07:32, Malcolm Wallace wrote:

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-20 for generalising the Prelude +1 for removals from the Prelude -1 for adding monomorphic stuff +1000 for doing nothing

You are all nuts. :-)

I don't know if I'd go quite _that_ for as Malcolm for the weightings for the different proposals...

But I was speaking with a few other tutors of an introductory CS/programming course that uses Haskell (note: it's teaching programming with Haskell, not teaching Haskell per se: for example, all pattern matchings must be done with case statements as the lecturer considers top-level pattern matching a Haskell-specific quirk) about these proposals...

If the Prelude is mandated as training wheels then I am +1 for jettisoning the Prelude for real Haskell programs; let it be training wheels, so labeled, and real programs should use something sensible. And the Prelude should not be imported at all by default if it's only there for teaching.

import TrainingWheels

has a nice ring to it... :)