On Thu, 12 May 2005, John Meacham wrote:
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 05:34:06PM +0100, Henrik Nilsson wrote:
Hi all,
Simon Marlow wrote:
It's a trivial change to make, it doesn't break anything, and it lets us support more existing projects without substantial reorganisation of their file structure. Sounds like a no-brainer to me.
I've never liked the close de-facto connection between the hierarchical module name space and and the actual source tree.
I don't see the advantage of giving every programmer his own style in this respect, or even allow mixing dotted file names and separation by directories. When I read import Control.Monad.Writer I know that the file Writer.hs is in Control/Monad, very easy. What's so bad about using directories? Bad support by CVS? Then use darcs. Separating module names and file locations adds a new level of complexity but for what benefit?