On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 01:57:01PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: > Certainly, this is something we want to support. However, there's an > important difference between shared-library linking and Haskell: in > Haskell, a superset of an API is not backwards-compatible, because it has > the potential to cause new name clashes.
This is the case on Unixy .so systems too, because the namespace is flat. If libreadline suddenly starts exporting a symbol named SDL_init, programs which use both readline and sdl will break. I have not seen this happen in practice. (Which might have something to do with the aforementioned name mangling :)) Stefan
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