#2362: allow full import syntax in GHCi
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Reporter: Isaac Dupree | Owner:
Type: feature request | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.10 branch
Component: Compiler | Version: 6.8.2
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: ghci, import | Difficulty: Unknown
Testcase: | Os: Unknown/Multiple
Architecture: Unknown/Multiple |
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Comment (by simonmar):
I think it should be part of the GHC API, as a generalisation of API used
by `:module` (`setContext`). Perhaps `setContext` should take a
`[ImportDecl]`, and we'd also need a way to parse a `String` into an
`ImportDecl`. We also need to think about how to handle `import *M`.
For the implementation itself, a good place to start seems to be
`RnNames.rnImports`, which returns a `GlobalRdrEnv` - exactly what we need
to put in the `InteractiveContext`.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2362#comment:8>
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