You don't need a new language construct, what i do is:

     module AnnoyinglyLongModuleName (M.length, M.null) where

    import AnnoyinglongLongModuleName as M

I think ghc would need to be extended a little to make this convienient as
it doesn't handle recursive module imports as transparently.

    John

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Brandon Allbery <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 4:19 AM, Herbert Valerio Riedel <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Now it'd be great if I could do the following instead:
>>
>>     module AnnoyinglyLongModuleName (M.length, M.null) where
>>
>>     import AnnoyinglyLongModuleName as M -- <- does not work
>>
>
> I think if I wanted this syntax, I'd go for:
>
>     module AnnoyinglyLongModuleName as M where ...
>
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