[Haskell-cafe] Proposal: Shorter Import Syntax

[Malcolm Wallace]

>> On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Vlatko Basic <vlatko.basic at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>    import Data.Map (Map)
>>    andAs M (lengthy,
>>    list)
>> 
>> I much prefer a syntax with a bit more words, like this one. The original proposal
>> is simply impossible to understand without reading a manual. It has at least two
>> equally valid interpretations.

Just to be even more explicit, at the cost of a tiny bit more syntax, how about the following proposal?

    import Data.Map (Map)
    import qualified Data.Map as M (lengthy,list)

Regards,
    Malcolm