20 May
2013
20 May
'13
7:31 a.m.
On Mon, 20 May 2013, Andreas Abel wrote:
Maybe instead of fiddling with the current Prelude (which might break backwards compatibility), we should design a new prelude which is not automatically loaded but contains roughly the current prelude (with the list functions generalized to collections) plus the "modern" type class stack: Functor, Applicative, Monad, Foldable, Traversable, Monoid etc.
I think the Hackage category Prelude gives a good overview over such projects: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/#cat:prelude