I'm leaning toward #2, largely because I know that's the Scheme approach, and I get the impression that Schemers and Haskellers have similar feelings about prot

I'm leaning toward #2, largely because I know that's the Scheme approach, and I get the impression that Schemers and Haskellers have similar feelings about protecting the design purity of the language. By contrast, the Python community has always been pragmatic, arguably to a fault. I can say that newcomers also seem to get a lot of advice that's directly at odds with how the Haskell community seems to think people should use the language. For example, Learn You A Haskell starts right off the bat by encouraging people to use the "list of characters" version of strings, even though that approach courts serious performance concerns.