Re: Prelude and (:) and []((:), []) bugs?

Ah, I forgot that you can't export a constructor on its own.

You can't? I probably knew this once but looking at it now, it seems kinda surprising. Haskell's module system is supposed to be just namespace control --nothing more-- so why is it preventing me from doing something which is perfectly safe and well-defined? I'll readily agree that there's no strong motivation for exporting a constructor on its own (I think the only reason Hugs allows it is just so we can export (:) from the Prelude) but what is the motivation for disallowing it? -- Alastair Reid reid@cs.utah.edu http://www.cs.utah.edu/~reid/