darcs patch: make Alex only occupy {alex, Alex, ALEX}* names (still assuming Prelude)

Isaac Dupree isaacdupree at charter.net
Thu Jan 17 18:26:22 EST 2008


Isaac Dupree wrote:
> Duncan Coutts wrote:
>> I've had code break by changing -agc options to happy because it started
>> importing Haskell98 modules and my package did not depend on the
>> haskell98 package.
> 
> in that case, should we switch to importing the hierarchical names in 
> Happy/Alex-generated code, since everyone uses those these days?  I 
> could make a patch to do that too.

a better design IMHO, though more work, would be to make alex also 
provide a haskell-library that its generated code uses and depends upon; 
then it wouldn't have to be quite as ugly in a few ways

~Isaac


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