Namespace clashes

[brk@jenkon.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mark Carroll [SMTP:mark@chaos.x-philes.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, August 15, 2001 10:11 PM
> To:	haskell-cafe@haskell.org
> Subject:	Namespace clashes
> 
> When I use Haskell, I'm still tripping over reserved words; lately I tried
> to use 'type' as a data field name, for example, and was somewhat
> irritated to note that I can't. (Can I?) What gives me the willies is that
> 
	[Bryn Keller]  
	Personally, I don't mind this sort of thing and I find the import
capabilities in Haskell sufficient for most purposes. However, I'm new
enough to Haskell that I sometimes have a hard time figuring out what I've
done wrong from the error messages. Here's one such:

	func x =
	  do
	    data <- readFile x
	    return data

	Where the problem is that I've mistakenly used the reserved word
'data' for a name binding. Here's the error message I get for that:
	
	scratch.hs:3: Empty 'do' construct

	But I'm learning. :-)