The automatically available standard module of Haskell, supplying basic types, classes and operations such as list folds, arithmetic and list comprehension support. A program can explicitly hide an imported name when providing an alternative definition. The reference definitions specify behavior, rather than requiring a particular implementation strategy.[ref]
Haskell 2010 Language Report. Chapter 9, introductory paragraphs and module Prelude exports
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