Re: [Haskell-cafe] Design your modules for qualified import

On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Johan Tibell wrote:

Hi!

The last two weeks I've seen two new packages that add suffixes to identifiers instead of relying on them being imported qualified to distinguish them from identifiers in other modules. This is not a new thing in Haskell community and there are examples of this practice in libraries shipped with GHC. It is also common in papers (for good reasons as we will see later). Atomic channels and variables under Control.Concurrent.* are examples of using a prefix as a namespacing tool. Let me reiterate the arguments [1,2] against this practice and also speculate why this practice is more common in Haskell than in e.g. Python, Java or Ruby.

Thank you for emphasising these points, again!