nested modules proposal

[Fergus Henderson]

On 17-Feb-1998, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > > 	Every module gets an implicit `:- import_module std' declaration,
> > > 	unless it contains an explicit `:- use_module std' declaration.
> > 
> > So then is there no way to be sure you're not using the standard library
> > (because you're using an alternative standard library instead)? 
> 
> That's right.  (Well, there's always `grep'.)
> Got a better suggestion?

Another point: someone recently pointed out on the Haskell mailing list
that providing more convenient syntax for using alternative standard
libraries could be a bad thing, because it might encourage language
divergence (i.e. every group using their own "standard" library).

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