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

[allan]

Neil Mitchell wrote:
> Hi
> 
>> declaration with a regular syntax. For example:
>>
>>     import Data.Map as Map
>>         unqualified (Map, (\\))
>>         qualified   (lookup, map, null)
>>         hiding      (filter)
> 
> I think I prefer this to my proposal, plus its closer to the current
> syntax. I think its also nearly equal to what Tom Davie came up with,
> given some keyword renaming. If we dropped the unqualified keyword,
> and just required unqualified things to come directly after, we get
> the full benefits of not introducing any keywords.
> 
Just to say that I also like this design. A minor point would be; do we
really need the parentheses and commas? or could we not just use
indentation (I think this about module imports in general).

Also I wouldn't mind 'as' for the names which are imported which would
be a bit of a work around for the debate as to whether I should design
my modules for qualified import or not. Suppose I make a 'NewList'
module and use the default names then someone could do:
import Data.NewList
  unqualified map  as nlMap
              find as nlFind
              lookup as nlLookup

or vice-versa.

regards
allan

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