Re: [q-lang-users] Import clauses terminology (Re: Bugfixes in cvs)

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

ed...@ri... wrote:
> How about "restricted" like "restricted quantifiers" in mathematics. As you 
> recall "For all, X in A implies P(X)" restricts X to A instead of the universe. I 
> know quantifier is not qualifier but it kinda has the same tone.

Well, "restrictive" surely sounds right for a mathematician, and in fact
its meaning _is_ similar to "qualified", but for programmers it carries
bad connotations, as if the access to the imported symbols would be
restricted in some way, which it isn't.

Two other ideas I had: "named" ("named import" sounds about right, but
"named import clause" doesn't), and "explicit" (but I already use that
for explicitly stated imports in contrast to the prelude). Also, I'm
still looking for something that better conveys the idea that the 'from'
clause also redeclares the imported symbols in the client's namespace,
but I don't think that there's a simple word to describe that.

Maybe "qualified import" (in Wirth's sense) isn't so bad after all? If
we take it in the sense that the import clause itself is qualified, not
the symbols that are imported... But I agree that there's a source of
confusion there.

Albert

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Dr. Albert Gr"af
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