[Haskell-cafe] What's in a name?

Felipe Lessa felipe.lessa at gmail.com
Fri Aug 15 14:21:32 EDT 2008


On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Andrew Coppin
<andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> wrote:
> Now both packages can be installed at once, but when I say "import
> Data.Hashtable", GHC has no way to know which one I mean. That doesn't sound
> too clever to me...

GHC can hide packages or, put it another way, can show only the
packages you want. That's what Cabal does when compiling. For example,
try to remove some package from the dependencies and watch GHC
complain.

-- 
Felipe.


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