#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: Type of failure: None/Unknown | Unknown/Multiple Blocked By: | Test Case: Related Tickets: | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by acowley): I don't think a desire to keep the `qualified` word is more logical or obvious than any other option. I can't think of another programming language that uses the `qualified` keyword. Agda uses `import M as N` to create a qualified alias. Python imports qualified by default. But this is Haskell, so we should consider how Haskell is used. If you grep over the source of all packages in the Stackage package set, you will find that `import` statements that use the `as` keyword are `qualified` 10x more than unqualified. If you focus on the specific syntax, `import Foo as F(bar)`, it is used in less than 0.3% of all import statements. So we are loading by far the more common usage with extra syntax. I suggest a way of reading import statements as "import ModuleName (unqualifiedImports)" If you want to use qualified names, all of that information is given by appending a suffix to the import statement beginning with the `as` keyword. This is certainly ''new'' syntax, but I have yet to see any quantifiable argument that it is less logical or undesired (see the support for the proposal linked from the haskell-cafe thread). Also note that the proposal will not break ''anything'': if you find `qualified` easier to read, then you can continue to use it. If nobody uses the new syntax because it is hard to understand, then nobody will suffer. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10478#comment:10 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler