On Tuesday 17 January 2006 22:44, Brian Hulley wrote:
Tomasz Zielonka wrote:
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 01:06:18PM -0000, Brian Hulley wrote:
5) We can get all the advantages of automatic namespace management the OOP programmers take for granted, in functional programming, by using value spaces as the analogue of objects, and can thereby get rid of complicated import/export directives
There is nothing complicated in Haskell's module system. It's very simple, explicit, independent from the type system and therefore easy to understand.
There are many concepts that one needs to understand ie importing/exporting, qualified/unqualified, hiding, selecting, and a strange syntax that looks like tuples but isn't anything to do with tuples.
Hey, you managed to summarize almost all features of Haskell's module system within less than 4 lines of text. It can't be that complicated, can it? ;-) (This isn't meant to dismiss your proposal. I've sometimes been thinking along similar lines.) Ben