Does anyone know why types and values are in separate namespaces but
classes and types are not?
I think it's because you cannot currently distinguish them in module
import/exports.
Ah, good point. For constructors there is special syntax which allows
to distinguish them in im/exports. Even if you have
data One = Uno
data Two = One | Two
and you want to im/export only the constructor `One` but neither the
type `One` nor the constructor `Two` you can write `Two(One)` to refer
to it.
So, my assumption that class names and type names always appear in
different contexts was wrong when it comes to im/exports and there
doesn't seem to be an easy way to fix that.
Thank you for clarifying!
Sebastian
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