I have no problem with MyPrelude (I've actually resorted to this in a few instances), but, for as small as the haskell community is, there's the standard prelude, the hugs prelude (which is slightly different, last time I checked -- i bevelive it has foldl' and fromInt), my prelude, Ashley's prelude, and I'm sure (well, pretty sure) that other people out there either have their own prelude or have had the desire but not the gall to make their own. I would simply like a standard one that's more flexible.

Not a problem; if you guys come up with a proposal and implement it, we'll add the appropriate flag to GHC. I think the right way to do it would be to put the code for the "advanced prelude" in a separate package. The package could be used to provide a replacement prelude (say with -fadvanced-prelude), or it could be used on its own (say with -package advancedprelude), to just use it as a library without changing the existing prelude. Cheers, Simon