Re: [Haskell-cafe] Use of abbreviations in Haskell

On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Miguel Mitrofanov wrote:

module Element where import QName import ... data Element = Element {name :: QName, attribs :: [Attr], content :: [Content], line :: Maybe Line}

module Attr where import QName import ... data Attr = Attr {key :: QName, val :: String}

module QName where import ... data QName = QName {name :: String, uri :: Maybe String, prefix :: Maybe String}

module Main where import qualified QName as Q import qualified Element as E ... Q.name ... E.name ...

I'm using this pattern of writing code and, so far, I find it very convenient. Yet, the code is likely to be spread across lots of files, which is not always a Good Thing. Cristiano