On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Henning Thielemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Haskell already supports qualification, why manual prefixing?
This is just a stylistic opinion, but I absolutely hate "required" qualifications; it is a waste of typing and, in my opinion, it makes the resulting code look more cluttered and harder to read. It's especially bad when modules are extremely likely to be used together, like Control.Monad.State & FRef, or Data.Map & the Prelude. You end up being required to import one or the other qualified. I direct you to my proposal for ad-hoc overloading, recently discussed on this list, as a way to solve this problem. In my experience, the code is almost always unambiguous without the qualification because using the "wrong" operator would fail to typecheck. In this case, I agree that manual prefixing isn't really better, but using ugly names encourages people to find better ones. I couldn't think of any off the top of my head, but I wasn't trying very hard. -- ryan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
