Tillmann Rendel <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Claus,
> 
> thanks for your elaborations. I'm still not convinced that a common
> name (e.g. TT :. Tr :. Tu :. Te) is a better interface than a common
> import (e.g. TypeLevel.Bool.True). In both cases, the authors of all
> modules have to actively collaborate, either to define common names,
> or to define common imports.
> 
> But I begin to see how type-level atoms could help to, e.g.,
> implement more advanced module system as type-level embedded DSLs in
> Haskell.
> 
> > Standard ML's answer to that kind of issue is type sharing.
> 
> Does type sharing help with making modules retroactively compatible?
> 

map (\i -> rot13 i) import Foo

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