6.3.5. Writing qualified in postpositive position¶
- ImportQualifiedPost¶
- Since:
8.10.1
ImportQualifiedPostallows the syntaximport M qualified, that is, to annotate a module as qualified by writingqualifiedafter the module name.
To import a qualified module usually you must specify qualified in prepositive position : import qualified M. This often leads to a “hanging indent” (which is automatically inserted by some autoformatters and common in many code bases. For example:
import qualified A
import B
import C
The ImportQualifiedPost extension allows qualified to appear in postpositive position : import M qualified. With this extension enabled, one can write:
import A qualified
import B
import C
It is an error if qualified appears in both pre and postpositive positions.
The warning -Wprepositive-qualified-syntax (off by default) reports on any occurrences of imports annotated qualified using prepositive syntax.