[erlang-questions] packages (was: newbie: why c.erl is special?)

[Sean Hinde]

On 6 Mar 2008, at 09:59, Lövei László wrote:
>
> It seems to me (after reading the list archive) that everyone wants
> this, only some people want even more. But this notation is here,  
> and it
> works, only some encouragement is missing for it to become widespread
> (like mentioning it in the reference manual and the tutorial).

Read again. Some people (myself included) thought it was an ugly wart  
solving a problem that only a few newbies stumble across and making  
erlang code harder to read and maintain.

One of the worst aspects of this would be the endless traversing up  
and down interminable directory hierarchies. Soon we would need a full  
IDE just to help us find the definition of a module in the filesystem.

Sean