On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 11:35:32AM -0400, Brent Yorgey wrote: > On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Andrew Coppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > 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.
Ordinary functions are easily split off from the Prelude. The only tricky bit is classes and class instances, and that's a Hard Problem, as far as I can tell. And, of course, "only" is quite an understatement here. -- David Roundy Department of Physics Oregon State University _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
