* Erik de Castro Lopo
Hi all,
I've added a feature request ticket to the GHC trac:
http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8043
for qualified module exports. In a nutshell this would allow the following 'qualified module' export eg:
module MyModule ( qualified module T ) import qualified Data.Text as T
so that any module which imports MyModule has access to the symbols of Data.Text under the quaified module name T.
What if something exports Data.Text as T, and something else exports Data.List as T (and they obviously have lots of conflicts)? Or what if I don't like the "T" convention and would rather like to use the "Text" prefix? The nice thing about the current state of Haskell modules is that you have very fine-grained control of how your namespace looks like. I feel that this proposal would make this control harder (if possible at all). (BTW, I'm not denying usefulness of this, and I've seen a lot of cases where this would be handy. I'm just pointing at the downsides.) Roman