This is definitely a bug in the syntax of Haskell. I don't see any
simple fix to the grammar except to change var to qvar in pat and
apat. This probably isn't a good idea since it would allow local
variables whihc shadow qualified imports or some such. We could add a
line saying `qualifiers
Dear all,
I stumbled across a subtle discrepancy between Hugs and GHC. After some
thought I decided that the Glasgow Haskell Compiler is `buggy'.
However, since the Report is not explicit about this issue (at least I
did not find a clue) the case is probably not settled. Assume we have
the
| Hugs is perfectly happy with this. ghc, however, complains that `empty'
| ist not in scope, which is in accordance with the rule (p. 58) saying
| that `the names brought into scope must be prefixed by the name of the
| imported module'. Hence I am forced to write:
Good point! The report is
