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I qualify and/or make explicit all my imports in Haskell today because of my limited time in Purescript. The code is easier for people new to the codebase to pick up what is going on too. Thanks #purescript! :)

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harry

@hdgarrood

· Sep 17, 2019

Replying to @rob_rix @jfischoff and @sclv

Pretty much everyone does in purescript land, but that’s because the compiler warns about open imports by default

Brendan Zabarauskas

@brendanzab

Sep 18, 2019

As someone who reads much more Haskell than I ever write, I can concur that explicit imports are most appreciated pretty much all the time!

Susan Potter

@SusanPotter

Sep 18, 2019

The secret (typically, unless you write and forget/not-maintain code) is authors/maintainers read the codebase more of the time than they actually write too. I might be selfish and have a puny working memory. :)

Brendan Zabarauskas

@brendanzab

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@SusanPotter

Perhaps I’m in the weird position where I read lots of code from different languages for guidance and inspiration, most of it unfamiliar. The biggest time sink is tracking down where something comes from. Hopefully GitHub’s semantic helps, but it wont solve it for Gitlab etc.

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