[mercury-users] query

Michael Day mikeday at yeslogic.com
Tue Mar 18 17:18:18 AEDT 2003


> I'd be interested in trying unqualified names in the tutorial as an
> experiment.  I know I often consciously use redundant module qualifiers
> in my code, but it would be interesting to see if new users would come
> to that decision even if all the tutorial code used unqualified names.

Just to provide a data point: we never use module qualifiers except where
necessary for disambiguation. This has not appeared to cause any problems 
to date, and nested modules make dropping redundant qualifiers even more 
compelling (as they waste more space).

Michael

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