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List:       haskell-cafe
Subject:    RE: [Haskell-cafe] Hiding functions
From:       "Simon Peyton-Jones" <simonpj () microsoft ! com>
Date:       2004-08-16 8:25:31
Message-ID: 4B93206CA3C55D4F96A61C9B1DC80DE301787559 () EUR-MSG-03 ! europe ! corp ! microsoft ! com
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Yes that's true.  See http://haskell.org/onlinereport/modules.html
Section 5.5

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| -----Original Message-----
| From: Lyle Kopnicky [mailto:lists@qseep.net]
| Sent: 13 August 2004 23:37
| To: Simon Peyton-Jones
| Cc: Haskell Cafe
| Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hiding functions
| 
| Simon,
| 
| It also appears that if I don't call 'catch' from my module, I can
| import both and not have a conflict.
| 
| - Lyle
| 
| Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
| 
| >It's an explicit Haskell 98 design choice
| >	http://haskell.org/onlinereport/modules.html
| >
| >"5.6.2  Shadowing Prelude Names
| >
| >The rules about the Prelude have been cast so that it is possible to
use
| >Prelude names for nonstandard purposes; however, every module that
does
| >so must have an import declaration that makes this nonstandard usage
| >explicit."
| >
| >It's a decision one could debate, but it was an explicit choice.
| >
| >Simon
| >
| >

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