Shouldn't BasicPrelude be the first import?

I could only see that mattering if doing so rendered other imports redundant.

It's mainly a style thing. The prelude isn't a "normal" import, and is less noise when set apart from the other imports.

I can agree with that. Let's add that to the style guide (which also has to be updated to reflect the removal of the Aura monad).

Right. Just a moment, I'll update the PR.

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I can agree with that. Let's add that to the style guide (which also has
to be updated to reflect the removal of the Aura monad).

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Re: th-printf. What's its advantage over plain, old printf?

@fosskers I guess the package is from here: https://github.com/pikajude/th-printf

Looks like th-printf is more flexible then plain printf according to the github.

Just took a look. I realize I should probably be using that for everything, haha. Things like:

foo name age = "Hello " ++ name ++ ", you are " ++ show age ++ " years old!"

are clumsy. I especially like its ability to produce Text. I had forgotten normal printf was limited in that way.

Thanks again @theotherjimmy for this!

@fosskers : lol. The same can be said for python. I guess plenty of language prefer using printf style output in some form for everything.

That shows me there's something inherently good about printf style.