[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: haskell-src-exts 0.4.1

[Duncan Coutts]

On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 02:26 +0100, Niklas Broberg wrote:
> Fellow Haskelleers,
> 
> it is my pleasure to announce the new release of the haskell-src-exts
> package, version 0.4.1:

> 2) ... I've finally decided to take the plunge and get rid of the ugly
> prefixes on all datatypes in the AST. I am of the firm conviction that
> disambiguation between datatypes and functions with the same name
> should be handled through the module hierarchy and qualified imports,
> not by adding prefixes.

Yes!

> And the longer I wait, the harder the switch. So now the datatypes
> that make up the AST are called things like Exp, Pat, Module (the
> former Module is now ModuleName), Type, QOp etc instead of HsExp,
> HsPat... .

Yay!


That is all. :-)

Duncan