From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB944BB84 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:38:21 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgYDAFfBKElDz4HegWdsb2JhbACTXAEBFiK6XYJ8 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,653,1220220000"; d="scan'208";a="31732745" Received: from fettunta.fettunta.org ([67.207.129.222]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 23 Nov 2008 11:38:21 +0100 Received: from usha.takhisis.invalid (unknown [10.17.0.18]) by fettunta.fettunta.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70A5D18241 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:38:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by usha.takhisis.invalid (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4BB676875; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:38:17 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:38:17 +0100 From: Stefano Zacchiroli To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] open Module (not?) considered harmful Message-ID: <20081123103817.GF27327@usha.takhisis.invalid> References: <1227002178.6170.25.camel@Blefuscu> <200811182330.03947.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <1227076192.6290.7.camel@Blefuscu> <4b5157c30811190146l2c6a5e2cv4a085bcc14ae5f4@mail.gmail.com> <20081119211124.51610ae9@alcazar.inria.fr> <1227172839-sup-5973@ausone.inria.fr> <20081120103303.GA25346@annexia.org> <20081120104914.GA14355@usha.takhisis.invalid> <20081120114103.GA26521@annexia.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20081120114103.GA26521@annexia.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Spam: no; 0.00; zacchiroli:01 zack:01 syntax:01 foo:01 cpan:01 cheers:01 zacchiroli:01 postdoc:01 zack:01 20,:98 dietro:98 c'e:98 sempre:98 wrote:01 uno:98 On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:41:03AM +0000, Richard Jones wrote: > > The most straightforward solution to this problem to me looks like > > providing a syntax equivalent like "from Module import foo, bar" > > which selectively imports only some identifiers from a given module. > > Again, Perl gets this mostly right, in that the module developer can > define "modes of use" of the module. In Perl something like: > > use CGI qw(:standard); That's interesting, but requires support in all involved library. Do you know how CPAN authors are required to annotate what is "standard" and what is not? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne m'en veux pas si je te tutoie sempre uno zaino ...........| ..: |.... Je dis tu à tous ceux que j'aime