[Haskell-cafe] Re: Unexported functions are evil

[Peter Simons]

Iavor Diatchki writes:

 >> Do you have an concrete example which illustrates this
 >> point?

 > [...] consider a file A.hs that defines some data type T
 > and exports a function "f" that is defined in terms of a
 > private function "g". Now if we place "g" in a file
 > called "Private.hs" then A needs to import Private, but
 > also "Private" needs to import "A" for the definition of
 > "T".

Ah, now it see it! Great example.

But couldn't you just put T in "Foo/Base.hs", g in
"Foo/Private.hs", then create "Foo/API.hs" which imports
"Foo/Base.hs" and "Foo/Private.hs", and leave f in "A.hs"
and import "Foo/API.hs"?

Peter