Alexey Shmalko
I like Richard's syntax more. The only note is that I'd like to omit asterisk when it's last in line. Then the only case when * should be stated is something semantically similar to
import Foo as F
(which I found silly anyway).
Here are more examples: import Foo qualified --> import qualified Foo import Foo qualified as F --> import qualified Foo as F import Foo (foo) qualified as F --> import Foo as F (foo) import Foo * qualified as F --> import Foo as F
This looks far more comprehensible to me as well, precisely because I feel like I can assign stable meaning to the words.
It doesn't seem to break backward compatibility for me (am I wrong?).
This syntax also fixes alignment of module names in import list. You don't need to align anything because all module names are right after "import".
-- respectfully, Косырев Серёга