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 =========
 
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 A sensible starting Prelude for building custom Preludes.
 
+Design points:
+
+* Banishes String.
+* Banishes partial functions.
+* compiler warning on bottoms.
+* Foldable / Traversable by default.
+* Polymorphic string IO functions.
+* Automatic string conversions.
+* Type synonyms for major data structures.
+* Basic monad transformers in scope by default.
+* Unsafe functions are prefixed with "unsafe" in separate module.
+* Compiler agnostic, GHC internal modules are abstracted out into Base.
+
 Supports:
 
  * GHC 7.6.1