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

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

> If you use a particular name enough, then you could always do
>
>     let miter = List_Mutable.iter
>
> in your code.  So this gets your short names and gets me my long names.

You could on your side do :

module List_Mutable = ExtLib.MList

> I'm concerned that when COAN gets going, there's going to be name
collisions
> and choosing very short names will lead to collisions later on.

The "-pack" option is resolving most of the cases. By the way, the more you
use some functions, so more they have to be short named. I personnally think
that mutable lists are the kind of module with large potential usage ( the
whole ExtLib is, actually )

> > > 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.
>
> Not claiming to be an average user :)  (Most Ocaml users probably aren't)
> It wasn't for me.  In the week that MList was first discussed and when I
> got around to looking at ExtLib, I had already forgotten what MList meant.

Yes, perhaps it's not obvious, but the documentation is here for that !
for example the modules "Weak" , "Oo", "Complex" from the standard library
are not so obvious names. But you only have to open the doc to get it.

Nicolas Cannasse