This raises two questions: 1) how important is it to allow third-party modules to extend the namespace? 2) how important is it to offer a uniform package structure (where levels are always separated by '.' rather than some level by '.' and some by '_')?
For the moment, we have considered point 1 not very important and point 2 a little more. There are several reasons to disregard point 1. Among these, clarity of origin (as in "is this module endorsed by Batteries or not?") and documentation issues (as in "gosh, this module pretends to be part of [Data] but I can't find the documentation anywhere in the documentation of Batteries, wtf?"). Do you believe that we should have chosen otherwise? Cheers, David On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 10:06 +0000, Richard Jones wrote: > Your biggest problem is using dot ('.') instead of underscore ('_'). > Using a dot means that the System namespace cannot be extended by > external packages. If you use an underscore then an external package > can extend the namespace (eg. by providing System_Newpackage) > > Rich. > -- David Teller-Rajchenbach Security of Distributed Systems http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/Members/David.Teller Angry researcher: French Universities need reforms, but the LRU act brings liquidations. _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs