allow full import syntax in GHCi

for example, GHCi currently allows "import Data.Map" but not "import Data.Map as Map" or (to demonstrate a fuller range of import syntax) "import qualified Prelude as P hiding (mplus)". (In GHCi, you'd probably only be interested in hiding/qualifying something like Data.Map that made it harder for you to use Prelude functions due to actual ambiguity -- or vice versa)

see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/41272

(P.S. I would also like everything in a module, such as data declarations, to work in GHCi also, but I suspect that's a more complicated feature request?)

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