Re: Library conventions

[Jon Fairbairn]

Lennart Augustsson wrote:
> Frank Atanassow wrote:
> >   2) The Prelude doesn't use it.
> 
> Well, it doesn't for historical reasons.

Am I alone in thinking that the prelude is desperately in 
need of restructuring?  Has anyone got any proposals for 
nested modules (so we could have Prelude.List.head)?

> >   3) Nobody else uses it either, except me (and Chris, apparently :).
> 
> I do.  I think many people do. 

I would if I needed it.

> >   4) Qualified infix operators are ugly.
> 
> Yes, I can't deny that. :)

That seems like a presentation problem.  One day an editor 
might be persuaded to display Prelude.+ as (till ex.) + in 
proper size and 'Prelude' in smaller type beneath it or as 
a subscript.

 Jón

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