On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:12 PM, Alexander Berntsen <alexander@plaimi.net> wrote:

Herbert told me to send these here since they affect base. I can imagine
people are vary of putting stuff in base, and certainly prelude. But if
I seem ignorant and ahistorical, that's because I *am*. So please, if
there is something wrong with my patches, don't hesitate to educate me.
Learning the ways of GHC hacking is after all my long-term goal. :-)

Hi Alexander,

It's hard to explain the general nervousness with modifying prelude + base. It's like a shared commons where rapid changes cause confusion.

The general wisdom is that it's very easy to add idiomatic functions to one's kit. And by kit, I mean something like John Goerzen's MissingH.

The big, silent shops that use Haskell commercially all have their own kits.

-- Kim-Ee