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Are there any alternative implementations that address these issues?

• judk 12y ago
  There are lots of high quality libraries, but no major effort to replace the Prelude's privileged position in the language. So it it kind of a minefield to find the correct module/function for your needs. Haskell Platform is a great standard set of imports, but it is only for the commonest libs, beyond that you have again the problem of sorting out excellent libs from some student's throwaway homework project with the same name.
  • codygman 12y ago
    arunix asked about "any alternative implementations", wouldn't you think that includes the alternative preludes like I posted?
• codygman 12y ago
  Yes, see the list of alternative preludes: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/search?terms=prelude http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/search?terms=prelude See the classy prelude github page: https://github.com/snoyberg/classy-prelude https://github.com/snoyberg/classy-prelude And the latest blog post about classy-prelude: http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2013/01/so-many-preludes http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2013/01/so-many-preludes It looks like iHaskell actually depends on classy-prelude: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/ihaskell http://hackage.haskell.org/package/ihaskell
• orbifold 12y ago
  There are several alternative Prelude implementations, but as far as I am aware none of them address all of these issues. Since most of the other libraries depend on the default Prelude, especially the type class hierarchy it establishes, the none breaking changes they could make are very limited. For a discussion of one of those proposals see http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2012/08/classy-prelude-good-bad-ugly http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2012/08/classy-prelude-good-bad.... Things could be worse, take Scala for example.