On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Andrew Coppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Darrin Thompson wrote: > >> 2008/5/8 Donnie Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> >>> I would be interested to see an article on Haskell in the same light as >>> this >>> Ocaml article, aka a constructive criticism of Haskell. >>> >>> >>> >> >> http://www.drmaciver.com/2008/02/tell-us-why-your-language-sucks/ >> >> > > Impressive. He thought of a whole bunch of stuff I hadn't thought of. > > While I'm here - I'm aware of how you control importing [or not] from the > Prelude. Is there a way that I can, for example, import all the stuff like > the basic types, classes, etc., but *not* all the list-related stuff? Or is > the Prelude not that modular? > Not only is the Prelude not that modular, there's not really any mechanism to make it so. There's no way to partition an export list in such a way that whole chunks of it can be imported/not imported at a go. Would that be a nice feature? I don't know, possibly. -Brent
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