[GHC] #2344: oddity with package prefixes for data constructors

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#2344: oddity with package prefixes for data constructors
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 Reporter:  claus    |          Owner:         
     Type:  bug      |         Status:  new    
 Priority:  normal   |      Milestone:         
Component:  GHCi     |        Version:  6.9    
 Severity:  normal   |     Resolution:         
 Keywords:           |     Difficulty:  Unknown
 Testcase:           |   Architecture:  Unknown
       Os:  Unknown  |  
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Changes (by simonmar):

  * difficulty:  => Unknown

Comment:

 When you say ':browse M', GHCi pretends you've imported module M for the
 purposes of determining what's in scope.  Everything not exported by M is
 out of scope, and in order to be completely unambiguous about which names
 are meant, GHCi gives the fully-qualified name including the package.

 The package prefixes are a bit unfortunate because they aren't valid
 syntax for one thing.  OTOH, there might be no way to refer to the
 identifier in question at all using just a module qualifier.

 I don't really know how to improve this easily.  Are you worried about
 consuming the output of :browse by a tool, or just using it interactively?

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2344#comment:1>
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