#10478: Shorter import syntax -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: acowley | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.10.1 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Revisions: Phab:D1238 -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by thomie): acowley: you could avoid the confusion by saying `import A (x) as B (..)`. But I'm not sure that's worth it. Summary of the previous [https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell- cafe/2015-June/119942.html mailinglist discussion] and [https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/38vsef/proposal_shorter_import_syn... reddit] thread: * A lot (15?) of people on the mailinglist were in favour of acowley's proposal, or at least for some form of shorter import syntax. * Only [https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell- cafe/2015-June/119958.html one] person was specifically in favour of goldfire's proposal. I think this low number had more to do with the proposal not being presented very clearly than anything else, given how similar the two proposals are. * A few people were (strongly) against acowley's proposal, all citing [https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2015-June/119982.html Richard O'Keefe's mail]. * [https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/38vsef/proposal_shorter_import_syn... reddit] seemed firmly against acowley's proposal as well (the top comment has 12 votes and starts with "-1"). This is the reason I think we should proceed carefully here. I don't think this is going to go anywhere without someone writing a [https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Proposal proposal page] on the wiki, with specifications of the 2 options and the above table, and then having another round of discussion on the mailinglist. If one of you could get behind the other person's proposal, that would make things easier as well. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10478#comment:17 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler