Subject: Re: Export lists in modules
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.haskell.prime
Date: 2006-02-23 14:22:15 GMT (3 years, 18 weeks, 6 days, 14 hours and 25 minutes ago)
On Thursday 23 February 2006 09:53, Ketil Malde wrote: > Wolfgang Jeltsch <wolfgang@...> writes: > >> Personally, I would greatly prefer to have libraries that do not > >> clash with common Prelude functions. > > > > I would solve this problem by reducing the Prelude to just a core. > > List function could go, for example, (mostly) into Data.List. > > If this means that you must import Data.List almost everywhere, this > won't change anything - only add yet another import to every file. But you could import something different instead! For instance, I can then easily replace Prelude stuff with Edison or some other data structure library. That is what the whole discussion is about. I agree with the rest of what you wrote. Ben