<html><body><div>Here are some more numbers. In our private code base of ~12,400 modules totalling >2,300,000 LoC, there are ~143,800 import lines, of which ~65,000 use the "as" syntax. Of those, ~8,000 have no "qualified", and the remaining ~57,000 use "qualified". So I make that about 5.6% of our imports. I think this is quite a lot higher than the Stackage figure, because this code is mostly applications rather than libraries, so it tends to use a larger range of imported functionality from lots of different semi-independent domains. The chance of naming-overlap for separate concepts is therefore much greater, leading to our common idiom for optional qualification of names with short module synonyms (often single letters).</div><div class="x-apple-signature"><pre style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">Regards,
Malcolm</pre></div><div><br>On 03 Jun, 2015,at 08:08 PM, Anthony Cowley <acowley@seas.upenn.edu> wrote:<br><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="msg-quote"><div class="_stretch"><span class="body-text-content"> I grepped through the source of all the packages in the Stackage Nightly<br>package set and found that less 0.3% of imports use that syntax. It's<br>a small number, but it's not zero, so the breakage would be<br>unacceptable.<br></span></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>