module namespaces

[Johannes Waldmann]

> GHC has a concept of a "package", which is basically a compiled unit
> consisting of libraries and interfaces (not necessarily Haskell).  

OK, so this would correspond (roughly) to Java packages,
while Haskell modules correspond to Java classes?

Note that in Java, you can import a class (`import Foo.Bar') 
or a package (`import Foo.*'), and that's a syntactic difference
built into the language.

Do we need the same thing for Haskell?  
Then the compiler/linker would know:
import a package: link with libPack.a; 
import a module: link with Module.o


> For each package, the compiler has a specification telling it 
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
So you'd have to change the compiler (driver script) 
if you want to add a package? Yes I know how this works with ghc now,
but I thought the new namespace proposal could somehow give
a more uniform solution.
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