On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Gwern Branwen
See http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/640
It seems to me that a warning on using the 'haskell98' package wouldn't be a bad thing; those modules have since been split apart in better modules, the names are ever more unfamiliar, etc.
But Duncan thinks it merits discussion.
While removing haskell98 from packages last night, I found a few more reasons to dislike it: * it masks a whole grab-bag of split-base dependencies: random, process, directory, old-locale, old-time, containers... * 'import System' is extremely opaque - is the person using System.Exit, System.Process, System.Environment or what? * the exported haskell98 modules are out of date; I found Meachem re-defining the functions repeatM and repeatM_ because a DrIFT module imported Monad rather than Control.Monad. -- gwern