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I was responding to "Can Haskell evolve?", I was trying to say "I think it can, but I would prefer it to evolve in a new language". The standard library is ridd

I was responding to "Can Haskell evolve?", I was trying to say "I think it can, but I would prefer it to evolve in a new language". The standard library is riddled with partial functions, like head and tail. We should not take them away and break thousands of projects, research papers, books and blog articles.

tome 6y ago
> We should not take them away and break thousands of projects How about the middle ground of marking them as deprecated and not to be used in new code?
- willtim 6y ago
  Yes, deprecation is fine, as long as they are not removed.
- dllthomas 6y ago
  And I mean, they're perfectly suitable for futzing around in ghci. I think we need different preludes for different contexts.