Abstract

Five years after the first Haskell report was published, the Haskell language continues to grow and mature. After five years experience of Haskell programming, we wish to both expand and simplify the Haskell language. Over the years, many Haskell libraries have been developed. The Haskell Committee is expanding the language by standardising a set of libraries to add to the definition of Haskell. Another goal is to simplify Haskell by moving parts of the prelude, a built-in set of types and functions implicitly a part of every Haskell program, into libraries where they can be loaded on demand, This document describes the issues involved in the design of the Haskell libraries and summarises the library modules being considered.

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