Prelude Hacking

1993-09-19 Thread Andy Gill
Talking about the Haskell Prelude ... IMHO as a Haskell user, one big problem with Haskell is the Prelude. Its too specific in places, making it too big. Take for example the lex function or the Complex numbers. However in other places it lacks in completeness. This is addressed with a (differe

Re: Defining Haskell 1.3 - Committee volunteers wanted

1993-09-19 Thread A.
I'm probably not expert enough to be on the committee. However, I have a suggestion. The syntax description of Haskell is hard to read. One reason is that one repeatedly has to look in the index to find out where some nonterminal is defined. If the page number of the definition of each nonte