[Haskell-cafe] import qualified?

[Paulo Tanimoto]

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Vasili I. Galchin <vigalchin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>      I am working with some somewhat legacy code. I understand what "import
> qualified Blah as B" means but what does "import qualified Blah" mean? Is
> this a deprecated feature? I saw with user defined module as well as with
> "import qualified System" for example.
>
> REgards,
>
> Vasili
>
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See the report, section 5.3.2:
http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/modules.html

Because we tend to have long names now, you will often see people
aliasing.  But "qualified" by itself has an important role, it's not
deprecated.

Paulo