I'm generally in favor of the proposal, but I figured I should mention one situation when I personally might find this confusing. If the module import list is very long, and includes an unrestricted import of a well-known module, it might be easy to assume a certain well-known function comes from there, when in fact it comes from some other module on the other end of the import list.
Hi,
Am Samstag, den 18.10.2014, 11:02 -0700 schrieb htebalaka:
> I guess my central point is I don't see how anyone can benefit from the
> current behaviour. For instance, a simple real world example:
>
> import Prelude
> import Data.Text.Lazy.IO (putStrLn)
I find this quite convincing. If I bother to explicitly write out „take
putStrLn from Data.Text.Lazy.IO“, why should the compiler assume that I
might have meant some putStrLn from somewhere else.
Of course, order should not matter (I don’t think anyone suggested it
should, I think Austin simply mis-read that).
Greetings,
Joachim
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