-package-name

Simon Peyton-Jones simonpj@microsoft.com
Tue, 8 Oct 2002 11:04:08 +0100


Definitely not.  Packages are the unit of distribution, and the unit of
library archive, in GHC.
If you import a module Foo, GHC has to figure out which libBaz.a to
link. =20

Simon

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