Modules and their explicit export lists (are an annoyance)

Evan Laforge qdunkan at gmail.com
Sat Jun 19 22:23:50 EDT 2010


On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Felipe Lessa <felipe.lessa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 08:38:52PM +0200, Christian Höner zu Siederdissen wrote:
>> But the more important thing is, that it makes extending module
>> functionality a pain (eg. if a constructor is not exported using (..)).
>
> I think this is another problem.  Sure, without export lists you
> *currently* can't hide those constructors.  However, languages
> like Java don't have export lists as well.  Imagine if we could
> write this in Haskell:
>
> private data Foo a = Foo a (Foo (Either a a))

But that's just a syntactical difference.  I suspect whether you
prefer to put visibility directly on the definition or collect it all
in one place depends on personal taste and what you're used to.


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