Re: Aliasing current module qualifier

You don't need a new language construct, what i do is: module AnnoyinglyLongModuleName (M.length, M.null) where import AnnoyinglongLongModuleName as M I think ghc would need to be extended a little to make this convienient as it doesn't handle recursive module imports as transparently. John On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 4:19 AM, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:

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Now it'd be great if I could do the following instead:

module AnnoyinglyLongModuleName (M.length, M.null) where

import AnnoyinglyLongModuleName as M -- <- does not work

I think if I wanted this syntax, I'd go for:

module AnnoyinglyLongModuleName as M where ...

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