[erlang-questions] application modules uniquely named?

[Eric Merritt]

In general its not a problem. That said its not uncommon for
developers to prefix module names with an adhoc 'namespace', usually
based on the application name. For example, I develop on a project
called sinan, all modules in the sinan application are prefixed with
the name sin_. It mitigates the possibility of namespace collision.

There is a package system, but it is unsupported and more or less
deprecated. You can take look at a recent thread around the topic here
-> http://www.erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2006-October/023728.html.
The thread is spread over two months and not well connected in the
mailing list ui so you may need to dig around a bit if you want to
read the whole thread.

On 7/24/07, Anthony Shipman <als@REDACTED> wrote:
> >From my reading of the doc, if a node has multiple applications then their
> module names must be unique across all applications. Is this true? Do people
> find this a problem?
>
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