[erlang-questions] Why do we need modules at all?

[Joe Armstrong]

Not guilty - I've no idea actually - probably an unfinished experiment ...

/Joe

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Anthony Ramine <nox@REDACTED> wrote:

> Le 24 mai 2011 à 16:50, Joe Armstrong a écrit :
>
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Anthony Ramine <nox@REDACTED>
> wrote:
> >
> > Le 24 mai 2011 à 14:45, Joe Armstrong a écrit :
> >
> > > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Max Lapshin <max.lapshin@REDACTED>
> wrote:
> > > Very strange topic for me.
> > >
> > > I'd like to know if there will be hierarchial modules in Erlang,
> > > because tree of packages is a rather good idea:
> > >
> > > No it's not - this has been the subject of long and heated discussion
> and is
> > > why packages are NOT in Erlang - many people - myself included -
> dislike
> > > the idea of hierarchical namespaces. The *dot* in the name has no
> semantics
> > > it's just a separator. The name could equally well be
> encoders.mpg.erlyvideo
> > > or mpg.applications.erlvideo.encoder - there is no logical way to
> organise the
> > > package name and it does not scale -
> >
> > packages are NOT in Erlang? Then the related code should be removed
> because
> > erl.lang.number:plus(1, 1) definitely works.
> >
> > Yes - this is an experiment unapproved feature which could be removed at
> any time.
> >
> > This is how we do things - we add experimental and undocumented features
> > and reserve the right to remove them at any time in the future. Packages
> are not
> > officially documented and thus not officially supported.
>
> Well then, forgive me for this little offtopic but you seem to know what is
> unapproved
> and what is unfinished. Are structs - not your proper structs but the
> commented-out
> production found in erl_parse.yrl struct -> atom tuple - an unapproved
> feature or an
> unfinished feature?
>
> Regards,
>
>
> --
> Anthony Ramine
> Dev:Extend
> http://dev-extend.eu
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