Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > Indeed. Requiring the import clauses to be at the top, and the fixity > declarations, makes them easy to find -- but we don't require that for > type signatures or class declarations etc. It'd be more consistent to > allow imports and fixity declarations anywhere.
The point is to have a notation that brings identifiers fom a different module into scope *locally* (in a let/where block). I am not sure what a local fixity declaration would mean for an operator that is defined in some outer scope. Best regards, -- -- Johannes Waldmann -- Tel/Fax (0341) 3076 6479/80 -- ---- http://www.imn.htwk-leipzig.de/~waldmann/ ------- _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
