Jeffrey R. Lewis writes:
> The import decl
> 
>         import Ick as Uck
> 
> is treated silently as if the `as Uck' hadn't been typed.  GHC gives an
> ingracious syntax error at least.  Mind you, according to the report
> this seems to be valid syntax, and the case where your omit `qualified'
> doesn't seem to be ruled out by the report, even tho if you look at the
> GHC syntax, it requires `qualified' before `as'.  But I have no opinion
> on that, I just like good error messages!
> 

The report isn't crystal clear about the relationship between
'qualified' and 'as', but I don't see a good reason to prohibit the
above. Fixed in the next release of GHC.

--Sigbjorn

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