[Gtk2hs-users] ghci-5.04.3 and ghc-6.0

[Duncan Coutts]

On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 14:39:43 +0100
"Simon Marlow" <simonmar@microsoft.com> wrote:

> > In this case gtk2hs.o was generated by ghc-pkg, but naively, 
> > can I ask,
> > is it not possible to detect this claiming of module names at 
> > buildtime?
> 
> Yes, in theory, but it would mean searching the entire search path to
> find all the .hi files for a module, rather than stopping as soon as
> you've found one.

Would it be possible to use the full hierarchical module name?
There's a much better chance of them being unique.
ie use 

__stginit_Control_Arrow

rather than

__stginit_Arrow

I *assume* that information is avaliable at compile/build time.

Duncan