[Haskell-cafe] Qualified import syntax badly designed (?)

Henning Thielemann lemming at henning-thielemann.de
Wed Jul 9 01:09:26 EDT 2008


On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, skynare at gmail.com wrote:

> How about using + and - prefixes instead of implicit and explicit clause?

Hiding of identifiers is the wrong way round. It fails if new identifiers 
are added to a module interface:
   http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Import_modules_properly

For one-line imports, see:
   http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Qualified_names


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