Re: Proposal: add `on` to the Prelude

Hilariously, I'm mild -1 on this. Haskell is an extremely import-heavy language. Anyone who isn't willing to just write their own mini-Prelude should be ready to import things like `on`. Why isn't `for` exported in Prelude? What about `&`? Both of these are extremely useful and common, even moreso than *on*! And their implementation is *even shorter*. It's a slippery slope. On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 6:59 PM David Feuer wrote:

Indeed, there are a lot more conflicts than I'd have expected. Ignoring functions with the same type, Hoogle shows this name in the below packages. I have no sense of the overall significance of the specific packages or (equally importantly) of the `on` function within each.

haskell-gi-base: on :: forall object info m . (GObject object, MonadIO m, SignalInfo info) => object -> SignalProxy object info -> HaskellCallbackType info -> m SignalHandlerId

brick: on :: Color -> Color -> Attr

esqueletto: on :: SqlExpr (Value Bool) -> SqlQuery ()

relational-query (both): on :: MonadQuery m => Predicate Flat -> m () on :: MonadQuery m => QueryA m (Predicate Flat) ()

threepenny-gui: on :: (element -> Event a) -> element -> (a -> UI void) -> UI ()

miso: on :: MisoString -> Decoder r -> (r -> action) -> Attribute action

wild-bind: on :: i -> v -> Binder i v ()

massiv-io: on :: Pixel X Bit

selda-postgresql: on :: Text -> Text -> PGConnectInfo

On Tue, Sep 10, 2019, 6:42 PM Ryan Trinkle wrote:

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One note: this does conflict with some other libraries, for instance GTK2HS

On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 6:26 PM chessai . wrote:

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+1

On Tue, Sep 10, 2019, 5:53 PM David Feuer wrote:

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Every time I reach for Data.Function.on, I feel like a total dolt for having to import a module to get a function whose implementation is barely longer than the import. And it's a really good function too! Can we please add it to the Prelude?

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