On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Xavier Leroy wrote:
> Coming back to your initial desire to "pack" Baire (if I may say so),
> I would very strong advise Diego to name his "List" module something
> else, to avoid conflict with the standard library module of the same
> name.  The hypothesis that compilation units are identified by unique
> names is really essential to the way the OCaml compilers work.  I know
> it's sometimes an annoyance (all cool names are already taken by the
> standard lib :-), but you're really going to run into trouble with
> name conflicts.

This is one of those things that's always troubled me (perhaps there's another 
petty complaint coming up) about OCaml. In a language with a hierarchical 
module system, it seems that we should be able to avoid such problems by 
having the standard library packages nested under a "Std" module, or something 
like that, so that List, Array, etc., become Std.List, Std.Array, etc, as we 
do now for the labeled modules. 

I suppose it's too late now for such a change, but I'm pretty sympathetic to 
people who grouse over the fact that lots of good names are taken. 

-- Brian


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