[Haskell-cafe] Syntax extension - adding import support to let/where bindings

[Brandon Allbery]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Richard Eisenberg <eir at cis.upenn.edu>
wrote:

> This all seems to be solidifying nicely. From my perspective, I didn't
> really like the original proposal, but am now in favor of where it has
> evolved -- with all imports declared at the top, and then adding `import
> ...` to the syntax of local declarations. I'm not sure where the trouble
> around instances comes from in this idea, though. Even if a module is
> imported qualified, all of its instances are available anywhere, and I
> don't see that changing here. As Edward said, this would just be a small
> change in the renamer.


The initial request wanted the import to actually be done in in the
restricted scope; keeping the actual qualified import at the top and
removing the qualification in the inner scope came later. That initial
version has problems for instances; the later revision does not.

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