synlude

This package provides a more minimal Haskell prelude with the following differences from the standard Prelude:

No partial functions.
No functions that actually perform IO. These should be imported from System.IO.
Most of the list-specific functions are not exported, and should be imported from Data.List. This is because the function names conflict with function names from other data structures, so should be qualified.
Export more functor/applicative/monad combinators.
Export a few other types and functions that the base prelude doesn't but I consider fundamental.
Only export the most general versions of functions, when possible. If existing functions could be more general, redefine them.
Rename certain xxxM functions to xxxA since they now only require Applicative.
More generalized exception support plus better assertions, found in Synlude.Exception.

To be honest, I don't really expect anyone else to use this, but I think it makes Haskell more pleasant to use for my own projects. I know there are a lot of alternative preludes out there, but most of them go the direction of putting far more stuff in the prelude, which isn't what I was looking for.

Usage

There are two ways to use Synlude instead of Prelude:

Enable the NoImplicitPrelude extension and explicitly import Synlude in each module.
```
{-# LANGUAGE NoImplicitPrelude #-}
import Synlude
```
Add a mixins declaration to your .cabal library stanza which hides Prelude from base and renames Synlude to Prelude.
```
mixins:
    base hiding (Prelude),
    synlude (Synlude as Prelude)
```

syntheorem/synlude

synlude

Usage