suggestion for Haskell prelude

[meshvel@botik.yaroslavl.su (Sergei D. Meshveliani)]

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Subject: suggestion for Haskell prelude
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A very small suggestion for the Haskell prelude style:

if a type has no meaning except being a holder for the values
of the function  foo,  then let the type be called  Foo.

This will economize names.

Thus the type of `compare' from 1.3 prelude should be called  Compare,
etc.



Sergey Mechveliani

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