>>>   Doesn't Haskell support encapsulation?
> 
>> Last time I checked, Java has the same limitation.
> 
>   You said:
> 
>>> struct Point {int x; int y;}
>>    data Point = Point {x, y :: Int}
>>
>> Caution: Note that the names "x" and "y" must be unique within the
>> entire module. For this reason, you'd probably use longer names.
> 
>   I understand to mean that the names 'x' and 'y' in your code above
> actually garbage the global namespace.

No - the namespace of the current module. And in Java it would be the 
same - the names are local to this class file.

>   In the original C code they are local to 'Point' and do not affect
> anything outside it.

That's true...

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