Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] ExtLib v0.1o

[Nicolas C. <war...@fr...>]

> > Hi list
> >
> > Here's most of the functions ( sorted by module ) that I been gathered
from
> > different mails here and there. There might me some mission functions
but I
> > tried to make the whole consisted and documented. You will see that I
have
> > included both Global and MList modules, since MList seems to be
approved,
> > and Global-like used by several people here.
>
> Looks great.
>
> Can we rename MList to something more descriptive, such as List_Mutable?

I don't think so...
Because lots of people ( including me ) are not actually opening the List
module for example, and are using the fully qualified namespace "List.iter"
to call functions. And after several times List_Mutable.iter is getting
really verbose ( by the way that seems to be the caml team opinion as well
since we have Hashtbl and not Hashtable module )

> I'd prefer to see the object type first, such as List, followed by a
object
> qualifier, in this case Mutable.  So all Lists would begin with List*.
This
> would make module sorting and searching easier in COAN.

Uh ? COAN is still far from being done. Trying to figure out - and to
resolve - possible problems of the posesible intregration of ExtLib into
COAN seem counterproductive.

> I think this would be relevant and consistent with other module
distributions,
> such as different XML parsing modules that would all be named with an XML*
> prefix.

I think that MList is understandable enough for the average user. BTW future
XML documentation will of course include a fully qualified name such as
"Mutable List".

Nicolas Cannasse