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. "Verbose" or "low-level" would be better accusations. It seems that you want to introduce some kind of C++'s Koenig's lookup to Haskell. Is it your inspiration? For me, C++ doesn't seem to be a source of good ideas for programming language design ;-) Best regards Tomasz -- I am searching for programmers who are good at least in (Haskell || ML) && (Linux || FreeBSD || math) for work in Warsaw, Poland