On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Daniel Trstenjak
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> There's a little bit of bikeshedding that needs to happen (e.g. is "hiding
>> (Foo
>> (..))" sufficient to hide the type Foo and not just its constructors), but
>> are
>> people +1 on this? I've frequently wanted this behavior.
>
> I would be surprised if 'Foo(..)' would mean in this case something
> different, so yes, the type Foo should be hidden too.
One related question: how would you export only the type if you have
newtype Foo = Foo ...
which is a pretty common pattern? Since "hiding (Foo(Foo))" would also
hide the type, I don't see many options, which is unfortunate.
In general, I'm +1 on the proposal.
Erik
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