Re: patch applied (packages/base): IsString is GHC-only (so why is it in the Prelude?)

Duncan Coutts wrote:

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Tue Jan 23 10:30:07 PST 2007 Ross Paterson * IsString is GHC-only (so why is it in the Prelude?)

Yes, can we please have a discussion about what's going on here. Changes to the base library are supposed to go via the libraries review process. I'm not complaining that we slipped up, I just want to make sure people can have a chance to comment.

I agree that this development is strange. The Prelude module in base is supposed to export exactly and only the Haskell'98-specified Prelude. There should be no proposed extensions in there, especially if they are compiler-specific. There are lots of other places an extension can live, e.g. GHC.Base [ Actually, to be honest I'm not quite sure why the Prelude module lives in the base package, rather than the haskell98 package? The same question applies to the Numeric module. ] Regards, Malcolm