[commit: ghc] master: Re-work the naming story for the GHCi prompt (Trac #8649) (73c08ab)

[Simon Peyton Jones]

Well, the module names can be disambiguated by the package name (it's already possible to have the same module in different packages). It is indeed possible to have a package called "interactive", and I simply assumed that would be unlikely.  I'd be ok with changing it to ":interactive" if you want to do that.

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Simon
| Marlow
| Sent: 19 January 2014 08:24
| To: ghc-devs at haskell.org
| Subject: Re: [commit: ghc] master: Re-work the naming story for the
| GHCi prompt (Trac #8649) (73c08ab)
| 
| On 10/01/14 08:52, git at git.haskell.org wrote:
| > Repository : ssh://git@git.haskell.org/ghc
| >
| > On branch  : master
| > Link       :
| http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/changeset/73c08ab10e4077e18e459a1325996
| bff110360c3/ghc
| >
| >> ---------------------------------------------------------------
| >
| > commit 73c08ab10e4077e18e459a1325996bff110360c3
| > Author: Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com>
| > Date:   Thu Jan 9 17:58:18 2014 +0000
| >
| >      Re-work the naming story for the GHCi prompt (Trac #8649)
| 
| Thanks for going to the trouble of cleaning this up.  I was never happy
| with how this all worked.
| 
| The prefix colon in the name (":Interactive") was supposed to avoid the
| possibility of clashing with a user-defined module, rather like the
| ":Main" pseudo-module.  Could that be a problem with "Ghci1" and so on?
|   What about the "interactive" package?  Perhaps these ought to be
| renamed to something that can't be user-defined?
| 
| Cheers,
| Simon
| 
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