[ambiguous occurrence bug?]

[Brandon Allbery]

I'm guessing, but I suspect currently the only way to look up a symbol
either requires explicit qualification of the symbol name or that the
symbol be part of a class or instance declaration that implicitly qualifies
method and associated type names. So for the implicit export list to
retrieve the local symbol definition, it would have to explicitly request
the local one instead of simply passing the name. (But getting the local
names, without their definitions, wouldn't hit this. Maybe that should
return explicitly qualified names, but I could see that causing problems
with ghci; consider ":browse". And that it already handles qualification
somewhat oddly because multiple modules can be in scope; "import" doesn't
mean quite the same thing in ghci as in ghc, and can't without making its
interactive use rather more painful when multiple modules are in scope.)

On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 2:30 PM Shayne Fletcher <shayne.fletcher at daml.com>
wrote:

>
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 2:23 PM Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hm. You're probably right that it should only consider the locally
>> defined one,
>>
>
> Cool.
>
>
>> but I can see why it would do this
>>
> Can you elaborate? Perhaps,
>
>
>> and wonder if there's even a good way to constrain that check currently.
>>
>>
> indicates that you can see why it might be so based on knowledge of the
> implementation?
>
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