semi-private exports

[Hal Daume III]

Hi again, all.

In my NLP.Prelude file, I define:

> newtype Token = Token [Word8]

and I export only the type, not the constructor because I don't users of
my package to be able to inspect/modify the list directly.  However, in my
NLP.IO module, in which I define IO for some of my data types, I need to
be able to access it directly.

In Java/C#, I would make Token public and the constructor protected (i.e.,
public for the current package but private for other people).  I would
really like to be able to do something similar.  Any ideas?

 - Hal

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Hal Daume III

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