qualified exports?

5 Mar 2001

      While thinking of top-level modules for libraries (packages),
I thought it would be uesful if the module could
export indentifiers from submodules, but with their qualified names.
The effect would be that after

module Top 

( module Foo
, module Bar
)

where

import qualified Foo
import qualified Bar

one could just write `import Top' and then use the names `Foo.frobs' etc.

What does the languages standard say about the above example?
Section 5.2.5 only mentions "The set of all entities brought into scope 
from a module m by one or more unqualified import declarations ..."

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