Haskell 2010: libraries

[Simon Marlow]

On 15/07/2009 17:03, Mathias Stearn wrote:
> Would it be possible for the language to require that implementations
> support linking multiple versions of packages (at least base and
> haskell-std) into a single running instance? That would solve the
> issue of using two libs that depend on different versions.

The language definition says nothing about packages.  As far as the 
Haskell standard is concerned, a Haskell program is just a collection of 
modules, including the Prelude.

I'm fairly keen to keep things simple like this.  The packaging system 
can be explained, without modifying the language standard, as a 
transformation on module names (e.g. prefixing each module name with an 
identifier representing the package instance it comes from).

Cheers,
	Simon