On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 7:12 AM, Yuras Shumovich
On Tue, 2016-10-04 at 04:48 -0400, Edward Kmett wrote:
It makes additions of names to libraries far less brittle. You can add a new export with a mere minor version bump, and many of the situations where that causes breakage can be fixed by this simple rule change.
It would be true only if we also allow imports to shadow each other. Otherwise there will be a big chance for name clash yet.
Could you give a concrete example of what you are worried about? It's already legal to have a clash between imported names as long as you don't refer to the colliding name. For example if one of my imports A exports a name `foo` which I don't use, and then another import B starts to export the same name `foo`, there won't be any error as long as I continue to not use `foo`. Regards, Reid Barton