Proposal: Changes to the PVP

[Henning Thielemann]

Am 10.04.2014 08:43, schrieb Ganesh Sittampalam:

> Thinking about this more, as a user of a package Y I think I'd be
> confused if it re-exported symbols that are defined in package X at all
> even if done with an explicit export list rather than an entire module.
>
> It would take some effort to check if they are actually the same as
> those in X and therefore won't cause clashes if I also import them from
> X directly for other purposes.

I think we cannot rely on the fact that A.X and B.X identify the same 
entity. It may be true today, but may change in future. Thus I would 
also not recommend re-exporting single identifiers from other packages.