On 5/5/05, S. Alexander Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 3 May 2005, Samuel Bronson wrote: > > Maybe something like > > > > from Text.HaXML.XML import (Types, Escape, Pretty) > > > > would be nice. > > The problem with this one is that you need a way to express all the > other stuff in import statements like "qualified" or "as", the > imported list, etc.
Hmm, I guess it isn't dead obvious what they would do, but it seems like it would make more sense that way than with braces-and-commas in the shell style. > If you don't like the dots and are willing to deal with having to type > the current module hierarchy twice, a more verbose syntax would be > > Proposal Translation > -------- ----------- > module Foo.Bar.Baz.Bing where module Foo.Bar.Baz.Bing where > from Foo.Bar.Baz > import Blip import Foo.Bar.Baz.Blip as Blip > from Text.HaXML.XML > import Types import Text.HaXML.XML.Types as Types > import Escape import Text.HaXML.XML.Escape as Escape > > Not as tight as the prior syntax I proposed, but more readable and > still a large improvement on the status quo. > > Thoughts? That looks pretty much like what I had only with an import for each module, instead of one import with syntax a bit like deriving... probably much easier to parse, and a bit more obvious what it means. Definately makes qualified and friends more fine-grained than I was thinking. You could even nest them. Also, it is much easier on the eyes than your previous suggestion, and there are no dots to count. I like it ;-). --Sam _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell