I'm using Hugs 1.4 January 1998.
I'm not sure what the reports position on this is (janet web cache
refuses to acknowledge haskell.org at the moment) but from a using hugs as
a scripting language point of view...
I know foldl' is not being exported from the prelude deliberately so it
can't be used in a properly modularised program. And since loading a file
with no module line is treated as defining Main, it can't be used even
loading a simple set of definitions used for simple interactive scripting.
But it is defined within the module prelude where hugs sits without
anything having been loaded. (It took me a while to figure out this.)
So can I suggest making a special case in one of two ways:
(a) make loading a file with no module line into hugs be equivalent to
having a module Main BUT make all names in the prelude available.
(b) make hugs without anything loaded sit in a namespace which contains
only functions EXPORTED from the prelude.
For usability I'd prefer (a) but either is preferable to the current
confusing situation.
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