One issue I have which I haven't seen anyone mention is that it's not useful with qualified names, by which I mean always importing qualified. Of course if you have no problem always using qualified names, the problem this extension is solving doesn't exist. Though I do like short names I'm not terribly bothered by writing Map.map and List.map. Most calls in a module are within the module after all, which is as it should be in most cases. So this extension would do nothing for me.
I like the explicitness of qualified names, and I find it hard to read someone's module when they call some function that comes somewhere out of a list of 15 imports at the top, and this extension would make it even harder to find the definition of the function... though tags would narrow down the search a lot. But with modules, often the prepended module name is all the information I need at the moment. On the other hand, I do acknowledge that I'm pretty used to seeing x.y in an OO language and often don't mind that I need to know the type of 'x' and maybe even find the constructor call to know where to look for 'y'. So maybe it's not that big of a deal. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
