Re: Drastic Prelude changes imminent

Looking at the generalizations in Data.List I find them pretty odd now when I think about it. I'd expect Data.List functions to be monomorphic to lists, just like I expect functions in Data.Map to be monomorphic to maps. Now there might be generalized versions of these functions in e.g. the Prelude, but generalizing Data.List means that I don't even have the monomorphic versions available if I want to resolve ambiguity by using them*.

Sums up my feelings exactly. Data.Map, Data.List, etc. should be monomorphic. Adding generalized functions in Data.List is a little baffling.