Something about the way module names are specified in a file seems
really strange to me. When I first started learning Haskell (I had used
OCaml previously), I tried things like
module Main where
import A
import B
main = A.f >> B.f
module A where
f = ...
module B where
f = ...
in a single file. This example is straight from chapter 5 of the Report,
and no mention is made (that I could find) about modules needing to be
in separate files. But this won't load in ghci! (Even if ... is changed
to putStr "hi"). Eventually I figured out that it works fine if it's
split over three separate files.
So here's what I'm trying to figure out: If every file corresponds to
exactly one module (is that true?), then why must the module name be
given again in the text of the file? When I'm using ghci, I have lots of
modules that I sometimes want to load "as Main", and sometimes I only
want them loaded as a dependency from another module. Currently, I have
to go into each file to change the "module Foo where" line to do this.
Chad Scherrer
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