RE: . defined in GHC and System.FilePath

2008-01-03 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
I've no objection to renaming it, if that's more convenient. It's a kind of composition operator, hence the name. Perhaps :? By all means send, or commit, a patch Simon | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of | Neil Mitchell | Sent: 31

Re: . defined in GHC and System.FilePath

2008-01-03 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi Simon Marlow wrote: i.e. qualify most things, but selectively import a few things unqualified. The GHC API is quite huge, I expect clashes to be fairly common if you import it unqualified. On 1/3/08, Simon Peyton-Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've no objection to renaming it, if that's

Re: . defined in GHC and System.FilePath

2008-01-02 Thread Simon Marlow
Neil Mitchell wrote: The GHC API uses the . operator, which clashes with System.FilePath. Possibly this might want renaming to something else - I have absolutely no idea what it does! Prelude :m GHC Prelude GHC :i . (.) :: HsWrapper - HsWrapper - HsWrapper-- Defined in HsBinds I tend to