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A lexical analyser generator for Haskell
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/alex
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Is it feasible to qualify imports from Prelude? #127

Open JustusAdam opened 5 years ago

JustusAdam commented 5 years ago

Problem

I happen to use Alex in a context where I have a custom Prelude and also warnings enabled for the use of undefined and to top things off I use --pedantic when compiling on CI.

So basically its a bit inconvenient.

My question therefore is would it not be better perhaps to only use fully qualified imports and fully qualified names in the templates/lexers to avoid potential clashes with user imports/defines?

Solution

Because this is a very minor issue I'd happily take it upon myself to "implement" it, so long as there are no objections.

simonmar commented 5 years ago

Yes, I think this would be good. I'll gladly accept a PR that fully qualifies everything.

andreasabel commented 7 months ago

@JustusAdam Would you still be up for this? I added qualification for all non-Prelude imports in: