A thought on module systems

Kevin Reid <kpreid-M/[email protected]> Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:31:56 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.e.general
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I think this is an original thought I had about the problem of modules/ 
libraries:

   A module (library) is a stateless unum.

Therefore:

   Module loading is obtaining a presence of the unum.

   Module naming is long-term remote object naming.

   Library versioning is an upgrade/protocol-compatibility problem.

   ...

I don't have any immediate practical results from this perspective,  
but I think it's worth thinking about while we work on figuring out  
what a proper module system for E and other object-capability  
platforms looks like.

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Kevin Reid                                  <http://switchb.org/kpreid/>