Why do Names defined in the current module lack a module name?

Johan Tibell johan.tibell at gmail.com
Thu Apr 4 18:38:50 CEST 2013


On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 1:44 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones
<simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:
> I  would be very surprised if nameModule_maybe returned Nothing for a Name that printed with its module name.  Yet it appears that you are saying that
>         a Name that prints with its module name with -ddump-ds or -ddump-tc
>         replies to nameModule_maybe with Nothing
> I don't understand that.

Thanks Simon. This is progress, because now I know that this is not
expected behavior, so I can try to figure out if I'm doing something
wrong and if not send you a test case. :)



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