http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/ImportShadowing
I agree. It is very tiresome and confusing, because when
you say, in your module "M", "M.nub", M doesn't necessarily
even export nub, nor did you "import M as M", so it's an odd
sort of self-reference. Also that self-reference is banned
in some places (maybe, left-hand-sides of definitions?) and
required in others (when used when also imported). The
"required" part would be mitigated by the proposal.
It's probably somewhat more worth warning about when the
import was explicit as well as unqualified, e.g.
import Data.List (nub)
than from merely
import Data.List
But it's a little confusing, because you can define methods
in instances (e.g. Category's id and (.)), but I don't think
instance definitions would be affected by the proposal --
only class definitions would.
-Isaac
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