Name allocation

[Shae Matijs Erisson]

Peter Simons <simons@cryp.to> writes:

>  > Maybe I need more coffee but I don't see how using relative names helps
>  > with the hard bit of the problem: conflicts between libraries written by
>  > different people.

> The reason this does not work as-of-now is the requirement of an
> absolute path in the module declaration. And relative paths would fix
> this.

I would like relative names. I've used them in Python for years, they're very
handy. Would relative names be nonportable or difficult to implement?
-- 
Shae Matijs Erisson - I've tried to teach people autodidactism,
but it seems they always have to learn it for themselves.
#haskell on irc.freenode.net - We Put the Funk in Funktion