On Tuesday 17 January 2006 22:44, Brian Hulley wrote: > Tomasz Zielonka wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 01:06:18PM -0000, Brian Hulley wrote: > >> 5) We can get all the advantages of automatic namespace management > >> the OOP programmers take for granted, in functional programming, > >> by using value spaces as the analogue of objects, and can thereby > >> get rid of complicated import/export directives > > > > There is nothing complicated in Haskell's module system. It's very > > simple, explicit, independent from the type system and therefore > > easy to understand. > > There are many concepts that one needs to understand ie > importing/exporting, qualified/unqualified, hiding, selecting, and a > strange syntax that looks like tuples but isn't anything to do with > tuples.
Hey, you managed to summarize almost all features of Haskell's module system within less than 4 lines of text. It can't be that complicated, can it? ;-) (This isn't meant to dismiss your proposal. I've sometimes been thinking along similar lines.) Ben _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
