[Haskell-cafe] Are explicit exports and local imports desirable in a production application?

Tom Ellis tom-lists-haskell-cafe-2017 at jaguarpaw.co.uk
Fri Sep 18 07:39:50 UTC 2020


On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 08:06:14AM +1000, Isaac Elliott wrote:
> I don't think that it's unreasonable in general to expect people to explore
> a codebase via IDE tooling.

Implicit imports prevent people easily understanding code that is
presented on GitHub, for example.  I think this is the main reason I
dislike implicit imports, my own inconvenience coming a close second.


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