proposal: standardize interface to Haskell' implementations

[Malcolm Wallace]

Jan-Willem Maessen <jmaessen at alum.mit.edu> writes:

>    * A renamer turns out to be awfully useful/necessary; this raises  
> the sticky question of how imports are specified.  It'd be nice *not*  
> to have to dredge up the old .hi files, as they tended to require  
> compilers to extend the .hi format in really non-standard ways.

On this page:
    http://haskell.galois.com/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/ModuleSystem
the suggestion "Permit Signatures in Export Lists" would place
the necessary interface information directly in the source files,
rather than in separate .hi files.  Would that solve the renaming
problem?

Regards,
    Malcolm