Neil Mitchell wrote:
Hi
declaration with a regular syntax. For example:
import Data.Map as Map unqualified (Map, (\\)) qualified (lookup, map, null) hiding (filter)
I think I prefer this to my proposal, plus its closer to the current syntax. I think its also nearly equal to what Tom Davie came up with, given some keyword renaming. If we dropped the unqualified keyword, and just required unqualified things to come directly after, we get the full benefits of not introducing any keywords.
We're still not introducing any keywords either way, fortunately :-). 'qualified', 'as' and 'hiding' are not keywords: the syntax after 'import' has no place for lowercase identifiers, so we can use as many new words as we want, here, as long as module names stay capitalized and import lists remain parenthesized (or, import lists could equally well be in layout after 'where', 'of', 'let' or 'do' if we adopt the layout syntax) -Isaac