On Thursday, April 30, 2015 at 9:00:08 PM UTC+8, mflatt wrote:
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>
> I'm enthusiastic about this effort to improve terminology! For now, 
>

Great 

 
>
> Ok. I'd use the word "declared" instead of "defined" for modules. 
>

alright
 

>
> > The section organizing modules sets the stage for this.  So I gather 
> that 
> > within that discussion it would make sense to interject at some point 
> that 
> > such the organization of modules being described is called a 
> *collection*. 
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> Yes. 
>

I'll make a mod for that.
 

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>
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> > In the context of racket,  what does 'library' mean? 
>
> I use "library" to refer to a module --- particularly one that is meant 
>
>
> See also 4.2.1 in the Scribble manual (which is probably not the right 
> place for that information, but no one has moved it to the overall 
> Racket style guide, so far.) 
>
>
ok I'll look at that and move the material 
 

> > Dearsay it seems that 
> > in some places modules are called libraries, and in other places 
> > collections are called libraries, and in yet other places the term 
> library 
> > seems to indicate that something is installed in a standard place. 
>
> Can you point to a place where "library" refers to a collection? That 
> sounds like a mistake to me. 
>

Got this impression from the heading name "6.1.2 Library Collections", 
though the text in that section then
talks about library modules ( *library *as opposed to *non-library*?  so 
library modules make library collections but non-library modules make for ? 
..)

 

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