Drastic Prelude changes imminent

Henning Thielemann schlepptop at henning-thielemann.de
Mon Feb 9 22:44:13 UTC 2015


Am 27.01.2015 um 23:17 schrieb Edward Kmett:

> The main thing we can learn from this is that having modules that
> "conveniently" re-export stuff is a dangerous thing in terms of long
> term API design.

I think that, too, for some time now. My conclusion so far was, that I 
should not assume that X.a is just re-exported Y.a when importing 'a' 
(maybe unless the equality is explicitly documented).



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