[ghc-steering-committee] #216: Qualified Do again, recommendation: accept the alternative

Joachim Breitner mail at joachim-breitner.de
Thu Apr 16 12:15:07 UTC 2020


Hi,

Am Donnerstag, den 16.04.2020, 13:12 +0100 schrieb Simon Marlow:
> On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 at 16:00, Eric Seidel <eric at seidel.io> wrote:
> > If we allow "M.do" without explicitly importing M, building the module dependency graph suddenly requires parsing the entire module rather than just the preamble. How much of a concern is this for compilation times?
> 
> That would be a big deal for GHC, which currently relies on being able to parse just the header to determine the module dependency graph.

But nobody is suggesting this, right?

Cheers,
Joachim
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