build failures when hiding non-visible imports

Bertram Felgenhauer bertram.felgenhauer at googlemail.com
Sat Aug 18 22:36:21 CEST 2012


Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> | Would it be reasonable to change ghc's behavior to treat this 
> | (ie an 'import' statement that hides something that isn't exported) as a
> | warning instead of an error?
> 
> Yes, that would be easy if it's what everyone wants. Any other opinions?

+1 for a warning from me

Bertram



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