Proposal: Reserved module namespace for packages on Hackage

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 Aug 19, at 12:20, Iavor Diatchki wrote:
> I think that it is a much better idea to use the package name as the
> top-level module name space, as we have already put some effort in
> ensuring that these are more or less unique.


May I suggest the Alexandrian solution?  Module aliases.  "alias Foo- 
package.Data.HashSet as Data.HashSet".

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