--Bug: Always specifying an import list when importing Prelude, --breaks handling of some built-in syntax. However, Hugs also has --this bug so I'll keep my workaround. {- import Prelude ( )
simple :: () simple = () -}
Maybe implicitly always adding import qualified Prelude as SecretNameNoOneWillEverUse would be a hack that would fix that? It relies on: (1) the instances in Prelude are always imported in every module anyway, in standard Haskell. (2) Another Yhc bug!!! : module Test where import Prelude hiding ( (==) ) data Foo = Bar instance Eq Foo where (==) = undefined compiles. It should not compile because (==) has not been imported, even qualified. In standard Haskell, you would have to add at least import qualified Prelude ( (==) ) . So maybe, to prevent incorrect programs from compiling after the other bug is no more, it is preferably import qualified Prelude as SecretNameNoOneWillEverUse hiding (Eq(..), Ord(..) and the rest) or if possible, name those elusive things (), [] etc, to import... But none of that is necessary for the basic hack - IS IT POSSIBLE? (even if so, is it too hacky? I believe Jhc *always* implicitly imports something like Jhc.Prelude that contains definitions of [] and a few other things, in addition to the standard Prelude stuff, and that feels *right*, to me) Isaac