Re: [Caml-list] Alternative proposal: COAN

[Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 12:14:13AM +0200, Lauri Alanko wrote:
> When Haskell got to the same situation (ie. people began to collect
> miscellaneous libraries into a coherent whole), one of the first things
> to be done was to extend the module system of the language to
> hierarchical namespaces:
> 
> <http://www.haskell.org/~simonmar/libraries/libraries.html>
> 
> This sort of thing is done in Java, it is done in Perl, and it probably
> ought to be done in just about any language that plans to support lots
> of libraries. Naming conflicts are icky. I would very much like O'Caml
> to have hierarchical namespaces as well.
> 
> The standard hierarchy layout presented in the above URL is probably
> also worth pondering.

This is already present and doable, we just need to use the -pack
option, which was added exactly for that. That and the module system
should be enough for any namespace handling we want to do.

Sadly, the current -pack option has still some problems on some
plateforms, and nobody really uses it.

Friendly,

Sven Luther
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