Re: Default Default

[Philip Wadler]

Colin writes

  Twenty years later, must we really settle for primitive modulo-word-size
  arithmetic as the default?

And many others support Integer over Int as the default default.

So do I, if it's done right.  But we already decided that doing it right
is too hard for Haskell 98; it will have to wait for Haskell 2.  Given that,
the conservative design is to leave Int as the default default.  Horses
for courses.

-- P