On Saturday 04 April 2009, Manlio Perillo wrote:
Hi.
Haskell 98 allows import alias: import qualified VeryLongModuleName as C
however it does not allow aliasing for imported names import NormalModule (veryLongFunctionName as C)
what is the rational? IMHO this can be very useful in some cases.
While I do agree with the argument that it could be useful in some cases, misuse of this feature would cause a lot of confusion, consider: from System.IO.Unsafe import (unsafePerformIO as safe) I think that the alias feature is OK, when the namespace is long, longfunctionnameswhichareapaintoreadandespeciallywrite are a bug and should be treated and fixed by the owner of that code, not by the user. If very function names are that much of a problem to you consider a wrapper library. -- Cheers! Marcin Kosiba