> I would like to lobby to move sum and product to the list library.
> Or, to rename them listSum, listProduct.
> (so that a user can use the names sum and product for 
> whatever is their
> primary data structure e.g. tree)

As someone said, I think 'hiding' is what you want.
Your suggestion is quite reasonable, but there are lots of
other Prelude movings-around that I am not doing for Haskell 98
(in ptic, the Prelude should probably be smaller) so I don't
think I'll do this either.  Unless lots of people yell!

Simon


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