[ocaml-platform] Fwd: Is this mandatory to continue this discussion [was: on the need and design of OCaml namespaces]

Yaron Minsky yminsky at janestreet.com
Tue Feb 26 13:49:32 GMT 2013


Not to pile on, but I think voting is a terrible idea.  I can't
imagine Xavier paying any attention to the results of such a poll, nor
should he.  The currency we need here is thoughtful designs and
arguments, not head-counts.

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:26 AM, Sylvain Le Gall
<sylvain+ocaml at le-gall.net> wrote:
> As you started this discussion and you write a nice summary in your
> last email, can you setup a vote form?
>
> The most simple way is to use a Google Form. If you don't feel
> confident, send me the text of each proposal (like the proposals I
> write in the forwarded email) + link to your summary + relevant post
> (a la weekly ocaml news) and I will setup a form for you.
>
> I think it would be even better that all proposal get an implementor
> name attached to it, so we know who will be in charge of the next
> action...
>
> Regards
> Sylvain
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Alain Frisch <alain.frisch at lexifi.com>
> Date: 2013/2/26
> Subject: Re: [ocaml-platform] Is this mandatory to continue this
> discussion [was: on the need and design of OCaml namespaces]
> To: Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain+ocaml at le-gall.net>
> Cc : Wojciech Meyer <wojciech.meyer at gmail.com>, Didier Remy
> <didier.remy at inria.fr>, "platform at lists.ocaml.org"
> <platform at lists.ocaml.org>
>
>
> On 02/26/2013 01:11 AM, Sylvain Le Gall wrote:
>>
>> My 2nd take on this:
>> Put this to vote !
>> With the following proposals:
>> A. Implement rich namespace
>> B. Implement simple flat namespace
>> C. Fix -pack issue rather than implementing namespace
>> D. Postpone discussion
>
>
> E. Advertize a naming convention for modules to avoid clashes, and
> provide very light support in the language/compiler/tools to reduce
> the syntactic overhead of using long names for users of "standard
> libraries".
>
>
> Alain
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