#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 acowley): No, I need to stop this exercise in futility. I canvassed IRC and received broad support, I canvassed on twitter and received broad support, I canvassed on haskell-cafe and received mixed support. I did the work of analyzing public code to characterize how common the confusing case would be months ago. This is support from nearly a hundred people for a minor language extension that breaks absolutely nothing. I have never seen so much voting for a GHC language extension. The code is now available with tests and documentation updates. Despite the small text of the original ticket above, it has been mis- characterized as breaking existing code time and time again, even today on the Phabricator discussion. You have now linked to a reddit post on what is actually an alternate proposal (`andAs`). When I follow your link, I see a +10 post saying -1 linking to sarcastic posts arguing that syntactic changes are unacceptable from an individual who cheers for (::Type) syntax, I see a +9 post that's +1 for shorter syntax, and a +8 for shorter syntax with my proposal (again, on a thread for an ''alternate'' proposal). I think @goldfire's proposal, though well intentioned, largely misses the point of offering more concise syntax, and includes more confusing cases. The stark lack of support it has received despite being from a regular GHC developer ought to be telling, yet is here dismissed as an odd coincidence. The patch is available. It does what I have written here, in the commit messages, and in the updated GHC documentation. The last time this went through the mailing list I received abusive mails for days, followed by apologies for the community's behavior for even more days. I am not doing that again. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10478#comment:19 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler