... and if I had my way we would remove all the 'FM' suffices too. yes yes yes yes.
both `FiniteMap.empty' and `empty :: FiniteMap Foo Bar' look infinitely better than `emptyFM'.
A problem with relying on qualified import in this way is that it is hard to build aggregate interfaces (a module that imports half a dozen other modules and reexports them unchanged). The HGL used to use qualified import (for all those 'create a Foo, select a Foo in current graphics context, delete a Foo' functions) but we switched back to a more traditional interface because we couldn't build aggregate interfaces. So, while I agree that it looks nicer, it's not necessarily better. Anyway, isn't there some kind of collection class that FM can be made a member of? -- Alastair Reid