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From: Damien Doligez <Damien.Doligez@inria.fr>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] camlimages vs. labltk
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 12:06:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45905683-6297-11D7-B6B4-0003930FCE12@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030328150028.GA9211@iliana>

On Friday, March 28, 2003, at 04:00 PM, Sven Luther wrote:

> Does this not sound as a ugly hack ?

Not to me...

> Would it not be easier to have something akin to -pack, but without its
> technical problems, and have each library pack its module into a
> namespace propper to this library ?

How do you make sure that two different libraries never use the same
namespace ?  And if I need to use two versions of the same library
in my program, how do you make sure that two versions of the same
library never use the same namespace ?

> If all library did this by default, at library build time, then there
> would be no need to rename the imports, since those imports would
> already have the modified (that is Library.Module) names ?

You can't avoid renaming of imports unless you have a centralized
allocation of namespaces, and _that_ sounds like an ugly hack to me.

-- Damien

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-30 10:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-25 19:33 Shivkumar Chandrasekaran
2003-03-26  8:25 ` Alessandro Baretta
2003-03-26  8:33   ` Sven Luther
2003-03-26  9:00     ` Alessandro Baretta
2003-03-26 10:50       ` Sven Luther
2003-03-26 11:24         ` Alessandro Baretta
2003-03-26 11:38           ` Sven Luther
2003-03-26 19:08             ` Chris Hecker
2003-03-26 21:08               ` Alessandro Baretta
2003-03-27 17:23                 ` David Brown
2003-03-27 19:46                 ` Chris Hecker
2003-03-28  5:33                   ` Alessandro Baretta
2003-03-28  5:35                     ` David Brown
2003-03-28 14:10                   ` Damien Doligez
2003-03-28 15:00                     ` Sven Luther
2003-03-30 10:06                       ` Damien Doligez [this message]
2003-03-30 10:38                         ` Sven Luther
2003-04-01 14:14                           ` [Caml-list] naming conflicts (was: camlimages vs. labltk) Damien Doligez
2003-04-01 15:05                             ` Benjamin C. Pierce
2003-04-01 19:51                             ` Chris Hecker
2003-04-08 10:33                               ` Damien Doligez
2003-03-31  1:21                         ` [Caml-list] camlimages vs. labltk Chris Hecker
2003-03-30  9:26                     ` Alessandro Baretta
2003-03-26 18:49     ` Shivkumar Chandrasekaran
2003-03-26 10:48   ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2003-03-26 10:55     ` Sven Luther
2003-03-26 14:10       ` Stefano Zacchiroli

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