Re: [Haskell] Hierarchical module namespace extension not sufficiently flexible

2005-03-06 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 22:15 +0100, Sebastian Sylvan wrote: > On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 17:03:38 +, Duncan Coutts > module Graphics.UI.Gtk ( > > qualified module Graphics.UI.Gtk.Button as Button, > > ... > > I like this idea a lot! Great. We "just" have to persuade other people around here of th

Re: [Haskell] Hierarchical module namespace extension not sufficiently flexible

2005-03-06 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 01:29 +0100, Benjamin Franksen wrote: > On Saturday 05 March 2005 20:06, Duncan Coutts wrote: > > It does mean that as I library author I'm sort of forcing you to use > > qualified names when perhaps you did not want to. But for some libraries > > you really can't sensibly use

Re: [Haskell] Hierarchical module namespace extension not sufficiently flexible

2005-03-06 Thread Benjamin Franksen
On Sunday 06 March 2005 13:23, Duncan Coutts wrote: > On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 01:29 +0100, Benjamin Franksen wrote: > > On Saturday 05 March 2005 20:06, Duncan Coutts wrote: > > > It does mean that as I library author I'm sort of forcing you to use > > > qualified names when perhaps you did not want

Re: [Haskell] Hierarchical module namespace extension not sufficiently flexible

2005-03-06 Thread Iavor Diatchki
Hello, On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 12:21:01 +, Duncan Coutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 22:15 +0100, Sebastian Sylvan wrote: > > On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 17:03:38 +, Duncan Coutts > module Graphics.UI.Gtk ( > > > qualified module Graphics.UI.Gtk.Button as Button, > > > ... >

[Haskell] Re: Hierarchical module namespace extension not sufficiently flexible

2005-03-06 Thread Andre Pang
On 06/03/2005, at 11:23 PM, Duncan Coutts wrote: We can do it too except that to use qualified names, users would have to import dozens of modules: import Graphics.UI.Gtk.This import Graphics.UI.Gtk.That import Graphics.UI.Gtk.TheOther. Not that this is a fantastic solution (and perhaps you're doi