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Opened Nov 15, 2007 by tibbe@trac-tibbe
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Allow aliases in GHCi module imports

It would be convenient if it was possible to import a package in GHCi under another name.

:m +Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8 as B

This is especially useful with modules like Data.ByteString which names collide with Prelude.

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Reference: ghc/ghc#1895