[erlang-questions] newbie: why c.erl is special?

[Anthony Kong]

Thanks, Richard,

Sorry again for the false alarm.

I think this "a.b.c.d" notation is a good idea. For once it allows us
to structure the source code tree better.

The catch are the erlc flag (which I just realised) and mandatory
explicit import of other top level modules such as io and lists.

Cheers, Anthony



On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Richard Carlsson <richardc@REDACTED> wrote:
> It was implemented a long time ago, but there was not a lot of
>  community enthusiasm for it, so it's not been made an official
>  part of the language yet. Still, it should work also in R12.
>
>  http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/packages.html
>
>  It was originally inspired by/ripped off from Java, but in
>  practice it's more similar to Lisp namespaces; see "The Complete
>  Idiot's Guide to Common Lisp Packages" for details:
>  http://www.flownet.com/ron/packages.pdf
>
>      /Richard
>
>
>
>  Anthony Kong wrote:
>  > Is it already implemented? Because I found this document:
>  >
>  > http://www.erlang.se/publications/packages.html
>  >
>  > Anyway, I was unable to get it to work according to this info.
>  >
>  > Cheers, Anthony
>  >
>  > On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Thomas Lindgren
>  > <thomasl_erlang@REDACTED> wrote:
>  >>  --- shiwei xu <xushiweizh@REDACTED> wrote:
>  >>
>  >>  > I think flat module namespaces is a defect of erlang
>  >>  > design.
>  >>
>  >>  Richard Carlsson proposed java-like packages some
>  >>  years ago, and the code for them might still be
>  >>  provided in OTP. (I thought they had some flaws, but
>  >>  they might be what you want.)
>  >>
>  >>  http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/398052.html
>  >>
>  >>  The usual approach to handling name clashes without
>  >>  packages is to use your 'approach 2', prefixing the
>  >>  modules with their owner application.
>  >>
>  >>  Best,
>  >>  Thomas
>
>
>



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