Adding a DSEL library to the hierarchy

Remi Turk rturk at science.uva.nl
Wed Nov 14 09:22:50 EST 2007


On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 02:45:23PM +0100, Ketil Malde wrote:
> "Alfonso Acosta" <alfonso.acosta at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > My options are:
> > 3) Use our own root name: "ForSyDe". That's how it's currently
> > implemented, but I guess that one of the purposes of having a
> > namespace extension was precisely to avoid people adding their own
> > root names.
> 
> It's what I do, too.  Frankly, I don't see any problem with this, and
> if I had a penny for every time I had to type D a t a . B y t e S t r
> i n g . L a z y . C h a r 8  or  T e x t . P a r s e r C o m b i n
> a t o r s . P a r s e c  in ghci just to disambiguate some
> operation...
Does that mean I'm not the only one longing for

 :m +Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8 as B

In that case I should probably submit a feature request for it.

Greetings, Remi

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