6.3.2. Package-qualified imports

PackageImports

Since:

6.10.1

Allow the use of package-qualified import syntax.

With the PackageImports extension, GHC allows import declarations to be qualified by the package name that the module is intended to be imported from. For example:

import "network" Network.Socket

would import the module Network.Socket from the package network (any version). This may be used to disambiguate an import when the same module is available from multiple packages, or is present in both the current package being built and an external package.

The special package name this can be used to refer to the current package being built.

Note

You probably don’t need to use this feature, it was added mainly so that we can build backwards-compatible versions of packages when APIs change. It can lead to fragile dependencies in the common case: modules occasionally move from one package to another, rendering any package-qualified imports broken. See also Thinning and renaming modules for an alternative way of disambiguating between module names.