Re: [Haskell-cafe] Platform Versioning Policy: upper bounds are not our friends

On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 3:57 AM, David Feuer wrote:

If the language is changed (without possibility of breakage, I believe) so that names declared in a module shadow imported names, incompatibility can only arise if two different imports offer the same name, and it is actually used.

This already happens in practice (e.g. "take", how many modules declare that?) and is one of the problems that qualified imports solve. Cheers, -- Felipe.