module namespaces with "Prelude"

[Johan Nordlander]

On Thursday, April 25, 2002, at 11:30 , Simon Marlow wrote:

>> All in all, dropping all implicit directories from the search
>> path gets my vote.
>
> "me too".
>
> I wasn't aware that Hugs did this, and GHCi certainly doesn't.  It's
> reasonable to leave "." in the default search path, but adding an
> implicit root for an imported module will certainly lead to trouble -
> after all, we use hierarchical module names because the modules at the
> leaves of the tree are expected to overlap.

But it is this "." in the default path that is the reason GHCi 
gives unexpected results, isn't it?  [See Hal Daume's original 
bug report]

Also, even if we have no implicit roots, an explicit "." in the 
search path might give rise to exactly the same problems.  This 
is only better than the current status in the sense that we can 
say "the programmer asked for it"...

-- Johan