[GHC] #9990: Top level module identifiers shadow imported identifiers

15 Jan 2015


      #9990: Top level module identifiers shadow imported identifiers
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              Reporter:  drb226      |             Owner:
                  Type:  feature     |            Status:  new
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              Priority:  normal      |           Version:
             Component:  Compiler    |  Operating System:  Unknown/Multiple
              Keywords:              |   Type of failure:  None/Unknown
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 Let's try this out as a language pragma and see if we like it?

 Artificial example:

 {{{#!hs
 {-# LANGUAGE TopLevelShadowsImports #-}
 import Data.Monoid
 (<>) = mappend
 main = putStrLn ("Hello" <> " " <> "World")
 }}}

 Current behavior: error: ambiguous occurrence of (<>)
 Desired behavior: uses top-level definition of (<>), prints "hello world"

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Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9990
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