[ghc-steering-committee] Please review #678: Amendment to ImportShadowing

[Simon Peyton Jones]

I find it a little annoying that this isn't backward compatible


Me too. I outline on the Github a way to make it backward compatible.
*Everyone*: do express a view there.

Simon

On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 at 03:50, Arnaud Spiwack <arnaud.spiwack at tweag.io>
wrote:

> I find it a little annoying that this isn't backward compatible. But on
> the other hand, it's a very obscure bit of Haskell semantics which is
> modified, module re-export is something that most people frequently get
> wrong anyway. At any rate, my feeling is that the proposed change is the
> right behaviour: if a module defines a function `foo`, and exports a
> *different* function `foo`, this is at least a smell, isn't it?
>
> So, in favour.
>
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 at 17:43, Jakob Brünker <jakob.bruenker at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Seems like a reasonable amendment, I'm in support.
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 10:33 AM Malte Ott <malte.ott at maralorn.de> wrote:
>>
>>> I support as well.
>>>
>>> On 2024-10-17 08:58, Simon Peyton Jones wrote:
>>> > I support, subject to a couple of typos I have identified.
>>> >
>>> > Simon
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 at 00:38, Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd at mega-nerd.com
>>> >
>>> > wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > Hi all,
>>> > >
>>> > > I have recommended "accept" for this minor modification of this
>>> proposal.
>>> > >
>>> > > I would appreciate it if everyone else on the committee would vote.
>>> > >
>>> > > Thanks,
>>> > > Erik
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > Adam Gundry wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > > Dear Committee,
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Gergő Érdi proposes to amend his import shadowing proposal #652 to
>>> > > > clarify the behaviour of module re-exports:
>>> > > >
>>> > > > https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/678
>>> > > >
>>> > > > I'd like to nominate Erik de Castro Lopo as the shepherd, as he
>>> > > > shepherded the original proposal.
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Please guide us to a conclusion as outlined in
>>> > > > https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Cheers,
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Adam
>>> > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > > --
>>> > > > Adam Gundry, Haskell Consultant
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>>> > >
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