Mutually recursive modules
Isaac Dupree
isaacdupree at charter.net
Thu Jun 5 19:15:29 EDT 2008
Antoine Latter wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Richard Giraud <richardg at richardg.name> wrote:
>> Does the current {-# SOURCE #-}/.hs-boot scheme allow for compilation of
>> arbitrary MRMs? Or are there known cases where it doesn't work? If there
>> are cases where it doesn't work, are there other options?
>>
>
> I don't think the .hs-boot method can deal with having a set of
> mutually recursive types split by module boundaries.
sometimes it can, I think
> If all you want to do is keep your API clean, you can stick all of
> your types in one monolithic module that isn't exposed by the package,
> and then re-export them in public modules.
Yeah, remember that you only have to put (some of) your types together
-- you can spread out your functions in your modules any way you want.
-Isaac
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