Re: Library conventions

[Lennart Augustsson]

Frank Atanassow wrote:

> To be fair, I can give 4 arguments against it.
>
>   1) Hugs's error messages don't qualify names, so they become very difficult
>      to read when you use this convention.

That's a totally bogus reason.  Tell the implementors to fix Hugs.


>   2) The Prelude doesn't use it.

Well, it doesn't for historical reasons.


>   3) Nobody else uses it either, except me (and Chris, apparently :).

I do.  I think many people do.  The libraries that come with HBC uses it.



>   4) Qualified infix operators are ugly.

Yes, I can't deny that. :)



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        -- Lennart