Re: Package naming conventions

Nikodemus Siivola writes:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 03:14:54PM +0200, Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
> 
> > One can add/delete  nicknames when loading a package  if shorter names
> > are wanted. For  example, I have such provision  in my DECLARE-PACKAGE
> > macro:
> 
> My bad. While I said package I *ment* CCLAN module (or whatever the
> correct term is).
> 
> It is my understanding that there is no guarantee that CCLAN module
> "foo" is contained within (or even contains) a Common Lisp package
> named "FOO".

Would  you have  a valid  reason not  to use  common-lisp  packages to
implement your modules?

Note  that my naming  scheme, (in  fact a  subset of  the hierarchical
packages of Franz) allow to create as well hierachical packages.  That
is, if one  of the cclan modules needs to  be implemented over several
common-lisp packages, there's no problem.

      net.sourceforge.cclan.web-server

could be a cclan "module" containing the following "pure packages":

      net.sourceforge.cclan.web-server.http
      net.sourceforge.cclan.web-server.html
      net.sourceforge.cclan.web-server.cgi
      net.sourceforge.cclan.web-server.files
      net.sourceforge.cclan.web-server.files.directories
      net.sourceforge.cclan.web-server.processes

The  "contain" relation  is a  kind of  "use" relation.   So  when you
download the net.sourceforge.cclan.web-server package/module, since it
uses the contained package, they are downloaded as well.



This is  a valid question:  should all published code  be encapsulated
into a package?

My answer  is yes.  Obviously when  your code consists only  of one or
very few functions, it may seem useless to put them in a package.  But
I guess most  of the cclan modules won't be trivial,  so there will be
need for packages in any case.


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__Pascal_Bourguignon__                   http://www.informatimago.com/
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