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Date: | 2008-11-19 (06:29) |
From: | David Teller <David.Teller@u...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Wanted: your feedback on the hierarchy of OCaml Batteries Included |
On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 23:30 +0000, Jon Harrop wrote: > On Tuesday 18 November 2008 09:56:18 David Teller wrote: > I only have one major concern: you say "with the large number of modules > involved, we would need a hierarchy of modules" but the number of modules > involved is tiny (a few dozen in OCaml compared to tens or even hundreds of > thousands in any industrial-strength language) because OCaml has very few > libraries. Yet your module hierarchies are already enormous and often require > a longer sequence of modules to reach simple functionality than is required > in a comparatively-huge library like .NET. Well, we're trying to be future-proof. Don't you think we should? > To me, the most striking example is printf which is just printf in F#, > Printf.printf in OCaml and is now Text.Printf.printf in OCaml+Batteries. > Surely this is a step in the wrong direction? Well, if you it's just the matter of [printf], we can add it to [Batteries.Standard] to import it in the standard namespace. The biggest question is how many things we want imported in that standard namespace. Or you could start your files with [open Text.Printf] or [module P = Text.Printf] or any similar combination. Oh, and, [Printf.printf] works, too. This is one of the modules which have a shortcut to their path in the hierarchy, to mirror the base library. Cheers, David -- David Teller-Rajchenbach Security of Distributed Systems http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/Members/David.Teller Angry researcher: French Universities need reforms, but the LRU act brings liquidations.