Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] New Library 1: XList

[fva <fv...@ts...>]

Hi List (XList, ExtList, List+, I'm beginning to confuse my lists!!)


Brian Hurt wrote:

>On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Blair Zajac wrote:
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>>>OK, The first of three libraries I'm submitting for comments:  XList.
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>>Not another single letter abbreviation :)
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>In the 20 milliseconds I spend thinking of a name, that's what I cam up 
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>>Maybe we should come up with a standard abbreviation for modules that
>>supersede or reimplement Ocaml standard libraries.
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>>Maybe Ext as was mentioned for ExtLib???
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>Works for me.  ExtList.
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>>The only thing is that Ext could mean any of
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>>External (not ok)
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>But not bad.  Or at least, not screamingly incorrect.
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>Brian
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IMHO this is a case we had not yet encountered: not an extension of a 
module, but a reimplementation of (hopefully) the same signature 
implicitely defined by List.

 Rather than using ExtList which gives the impression of an extension of 
the signature (maybe there is, I haven't looked into the code, really) 
we could *postfix* a number (like "List2" for "2nd implementation of 
List") or List+ as suggested... Only I don't think the Ocaml team would 
care for such a comparison... Hey, what about ListAlt (we're getting 
into murkiers waters here, I know ;) )?

OK so my proposition is:
- Extensions to modules implying an implicit extension on signatures get 
prefixed, like ExtList
- reimplementations/laternate versions get postfixed like List2 or 
List++ or whatever...

(I think this makes sense as well from a linguistic point of view... but 
I'll defer to native speakers here).

Regards,

       Fran Valverde