On 15-Feb-2001, William Lee Irwin III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some reasonable assumptions: I disagree about the reasonableness of many of your assumptions ;-) > (1) lists are largely untouchable I want to be able to write a Prelude that has lists as a strict data type, rather than a lazy data type. > (4) I/O libs will probably not be toyed with much (monads are good!) > (5) logical values will either be a monotype or a pointed set class > (may be too much to support more than a monotype) I think that that replacing the I/O libs is likely to be a much more useful and realistic proposition than replacing the boolean type. > (9) probably no one will try to alter application syntax to operate > on things like instances of class Applicable That's a separate issue; you're talking here about a language extension, not just a new Prelude. > (10) the vast majority of the prelude changes desirable to support > will have to do with the numeric hierarchy s/numeric hierarchy/class hierarchy/ -- Fergus Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | "I have always known that the pursuit | of excellence is a lethal habit" WWW: <http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh> | -- the last words of T. S. Garp. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
- Primitive types and Prelude shenanigans William Lee Irwin III
- Re: Primitive types and Prelude shenanigans Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
- Re: Primitive types and Prelude shenanigans William Lee Irwin III
- Re: Primitive types and Prelude shenani... William Lee Irwin III
- RE: Primitive types and Prelude shenanigans Simon Peyton-Jones
- Re: Primitive types and Prelude shenani... Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
- RE: Primitive types and Prelude shenani... Koen Claessen
- RE: Primitive types and Prelude shenanigans Simon Marlow
- Re: Primitive types and Prelude shenanigans William Lee Irwin III
- Re: Primitive types and Prelude shenani... Ketil Malde
- Re: Primitive types and Prelude shenanigans Fergus Henderson
- Re: Primitive types and Prelude shenani... William Lee Irwin III
- Re: Primitive types and Prelude shenanigans Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
- Re: Primitive types and Prelude shenani... William Lee Irwin III
- RE: Primitive types and Prelude shenanigans Simon Peyton-Jones
- Re: Primitive types and Prelude shenanigans Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
- Re: Primitive types and Prelude shenani... Dylan Thurston
- Re: Primitive types and Prelude shenanigans Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
- Re: Primitive types and Prelude shenani... William Lee Irwin III
- RE: Primitive types and Prelude shenanigans Simon Peyton-Jones
- Re: Primitive types and Prelude shenanigans Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk