[Haskell-cafe] Modules and files

[Jon Fairbairn]

On 2004-06-14 at 15:59PDT "Iavor S. Diatchki" wrote:
> according to the report there should be no connection
> between modules and files, and one should be able to have
> multiple modules in a file, and even a single module in
> multiple files.  however none of the implementations
> support that, so in effect there is 1-1 correspondence
> between modules and files.

> the reason for this is that it provides an easy way for
> the implementation to find the modules.

But surely it's also a significant discouragement to those
who would write small modules, and therefore a Bad Thing, at
least until editing and displaying multiple files is made
sufficiently easy?

 Jón

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Jón Fairbairn                                 Jon.Fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk