Re: [Haskell-cafe] Importing more modules by default

2013-08-09 Thread aditya bhargava
Cool, BasicPrelude solves my problem perfectly! On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 7:04 AM, David McBride toa...@gmail.com wrote: I've started using BasicPrelude with -XNoImplicitPrelude in all of my code. It imports all of those and some other stuff as well (text related functions). Cuts down on my

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Importing more modules by default

2013-08-08 Thread David McBride
I've started using BasicPrelude with -XNoImplicitPrelude in all of my code. It imports all of those and some other stuff as well (text related functions). Cuts down on my imports by a little over half. Kind of wish it could be made the default. On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 10:23 PM, aditya bhargava

[Haskell-cafe] Importing more modules by default

2013-08-07 Thread aditya bhargava
Hi there, It seems like every Haskell program I write imports the following modules: Control.Monad Control.Applicative Data.Maybe Data.List Is there a good reason why these modules aren't imported by default? When I write a simple script usually a 1/4th of the script is just imports, and my code

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Importing more modules by default

2013-08-07 Thread Carter Schonwald
Hello Aditya, you could write a script to generate a starter file for yourself. I do something like that with my own latex documents. Or have your own special module that reexports all of those that you import for you own projects. Its very easy to write your own module that reExports other