r-10">(</span>modules<span 
class="cmr-10">)  </span></td>
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 <p class="noindent"> Module names can be thought of as being arranged in a hierarchy in which appending a new component creates a
child of the original module name. For example, the module <span 
class="pcrr7t-">Control.Monad.ST</span> is a child of the
<span 
class="pcrr7t-">Control.Monad</span> sub-hierarchy. This is purely a convention, however, and not part of the language definition; in
this