Re: [Caml-list] Wanted: your feedback on the hierarchy of OCaml Batteries Included

["Thomas Gazagnaire" <ocaml@gazagnaire.com>]

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> With the current standard library if I suddenly want to use Int32.of_int, I
> know I just need to type Int32.of_int in my source. With your proposal I
> need to remember that it is in Data.Numeric and go at the beginning of my
> file to open it or write Data.Numeric.Int32.of_int, to me this brings
> bureaucracy without any benefit. And lack of bureaucracy is one of the
> reasons I like ocaml (and dislike java for example).
>
> Besides Hierarchies are anyway limited in their descriptive power and one
> day you'll find something that will fit in two places, Rope is already an
> example being both Data.Persistent and Data.Text.
>

 I use modules in the same way, mostly to be able to grep Int32.of_int in my
code when needed (as greping for of_int only would make the result less
precise).


> Thus my proposal would be to _present_ them as a hierarchy (but even here a
> mean to tag/browse the modules with/by keywords would do a better job) but
> keep the actual module structure of Batteries as flat as possible,
> everything just under the toplevel Batteries. When I code I really don't
> want to have to think about all these open directives that essentially bring
> nothing.
>

tag system for modules is a good idea,  and I would like to add that type
search for functions (which is already done by ocamlbrowser) is also nice.
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Thomas

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