Re: Proposal: Use (.) and id from Control.Category in Prelude

On 15 Jun 2014, at 16:13, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:

I wonder if Haskell could be extended to be able to write something like

import Data.Category

and have the more general versions of (.) and id automatically shadow the monomorphic versions brought in scope by the Prelude.

Just a thought (which is probably not that new)

There was a brief discussion about it some time ago: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.glasgow.user/23719