[m-dev.] foreign enum module qualification

[Julien Fischer]

On Fri, 4 Oct 2019, Zoltan Somogyi wrote:

> Foreign enum pragmas specify a mapping from the names
> of an enum type's constants to their foreign names. At the moment,
> we allow programmers to module qualify the names of the constants,
> but there is not much point in that, since the only valid module name
> that the qualification may yield is the name of the current module.
>
> I would guess that the only reason for allow module qualification
> on the constant names is to reuse code that handles foreign_export_enums,
> in which module qualification *does* make sense.
>
> Would anyone object if we required the constant names in foreign_enum
> pragmas to be unqualified? It would remove a potential source
> of user errors. And even though in *theory* this is a breaking
> change, in practice, it isn't really, since people tend not to write
> such obviously redundant qualifications.

No objection from me.

Julien.