[Haskell-cafe] what about adding a HIDE pragma ?

[Thomas Davie]

On 22 Jul 2009, at 14:53, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

> Hello Marc,
>
> Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 4:28:49 PM, you wrote:
>
>> So does it make sense to add this information using pragmas?
>
> pragmas shouldn't change program behavior or alter whether program may
> be compiled
>
> of course, LANGUAGE pragmas violate this law, but is considered as bug
> in Haskell developments rather than welcomed feature

Why shouldn't they?  I'm not particularly in support of this idea --  
it makes it less clear what is being exported by the module, but I  
don't get your reasoning.

Bob