Export lists in modules

[Christopher Brown]

Hi,

I am not sure if this has been mentioned before, but something I  
would really find useful is the ability to tell Haskell to export  
everything in a function except for some named functions. The problem  
at the moment is that if you have a large file with lots of functions  
and you want to export everything in that file apart from one  
function, then you have to either:

export explicitly every function apart from the function you want;
import the module hiding the function

The first is time consuming and prone to errors and the second raises  
issues about making libraries portable. I may want to produce an API  
for example and not export a particular function for a particular  
reason - I don't want people who use my API to have to use import  
hiding every time they use it.

What does anybody think?

Chris.


Christopher Brown
Ph.D. Student University of Kent. UK.
http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/rpg/cmb21/index.html