https://github.com/agrafix/purescript-preface

An alternative to the Prelude for teaching purposes
https://github.com/agrafix/purescript-preface

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An alternative to the Prelude for teaching purposes

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/agrafix/purescript-preface
• Owner: agrafix
• Created: 2016-09-04T16:24:47.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-09-04T16:25:07.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-08T20:48:57.872Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: PureScript
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• Size: 20.5 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# purescript-preface

A simpler alternative to the Prelude.

- [Module Documentation](docs/Preface.md)

- [Example](test/Main.purs)

## Getting Started

Clone this repository. Then, using [Pulp](https://github.com/bodil/pulp):

    pulp build

    pulp test

## Design

The Preface is intended to be a simpler introduction to the concepts of PureScript for beginners, specifically those

coming from Javascript. With that in mind, here are some design goals:

- Use simple types - no type classes, effect rows, etc.

- Provide excellent documentation with examples.

- Name functions using simple names which explain their purpose.

The Preface is meant to be a _teaching tool_, such that users should plan to graduate to the regular set of PureScript core libraries once they are familiar with the ideas. However, the Preface may be a practical alternative for some very simple tasks.