David Brown wrote:

> The other odd difference is that in Haskell, importing puts the names
> into the current module.  If the current module is exporting
> everything, then these names will be exported from it as well.

I know this is getting off-topic, but the above statement is not  
correct.
Haskell by default exports only the top-level definitions of a module.
You have to mention any imported entities that you want to export from
a module explicitly in its export list.

Regards
Wolfgang