Re: Module hierarchy revisited

[Christian Lindig <lindig@is.gaertner.de>]

> With directory as modules support we use the cleaner first aproach,
> as well as avoiding any name clashes.
> 
> This will become more and more a concern as ocaml support grows
> larger.

I would like to support the proposed mapping of module hierarchies to
directory hierarchies.  It allows for a nice integration of many of
the existing caml code (like pcre, Chris Okasaki's data structures,
XLib to name just a few) into a contrib hierarchy. 

Let's learn from the Perl, Java, and Python communities which managed
to build a very large code base for their respective system. 
Maintenance of such a code base could (and probably would) be
independent from the OCaml compiler and its standard library once the
top level modules are fixed. 

To summarize: I'd like to see such a feature in OCaml 3.

-- Christian

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