File stucture of GHC.

Lemmih lemmih at gmail.com
Wed May 24 17:06:29 EDT 2006


On 5/8/06, Simon Peyton-Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:
> For a long time we've had a plan to lift GHC's restriction that a single
> program cannot have two modules with the same name -- because it
> fundamentally breaks the modularity of packages.  That in turn affects
> your sensible suggestion: when importing a package, one will presumably
> be able to graft it into the module namespace wherever you like.
>
> Prompted by your message (thank you), Simon is going to sketch the
> design we have in mind, so that you and others can help us refine it.
> So perhaps hold on changing GHC's module names for now.
>
> Simon

How's he coming along?

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  Lemmih


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