[mercury-users] Module qualification of common operators (was RE: [m-rev.] Updated posix patch)

[Peter Schachte]

> I'm starting to think that for very common operators such as
> map, fold, filter, append etc. readability might improve by
> omitting module qualifiers.  Some unqualified overloading is
> already commonplace, ++/2 and elem/1 for instance.
> 
> How do other people feel about the issue?

I agree.  I find the module prefix often makes the code harder to read.  I
often find the intended meaning is is more quickly seen without the extra
text.  


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