[erlang-questions] Why we need a -module() attribute?

[Bengt Kleberg]

More really annoying name space problems:
1) Two binary packages/libs that I need both include the same module name.
2) Two binary packages/libs that I need must have different versions of 
some third lib.


bengt

On 02/25/2016 09:02 AM, Benoit Chesneau wrote:
> also about namespacing that's indeed quite annoying when you have to 
> rename your filed just because you adding a dependancy to a vendor 
> that contain a module with the same name... Or if you want to use your 
> patched module over the erlang core (eg ssl).
>
> We already have way to point to includes files using relative paths. 
> would be cool to extend it to the import instruction and use paths 
> like in go. Then using the dot internally to distinct from the ":" .
>
> One bonus point is that it would encourage peiple to create libs 
> without to care that much if someone is already using that name...
>
> - benoît
>
>
> On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 at 08:24, Benoit Chesneau <bchesneau@REDACTED 
> <mailto:bchesneau@REDACTED>> wrote:
>
>     i'm not sure if people complained but that the second time at
>     least that such topic fall on the mailing list to my knowledge.
>
>     One sure thing though is that people using elixir like the
>     possibility to mix multiples modules in one file . They find it
>     convenient. At the end multiples beam files will be created by the
>     elixir compiler(builder?) . Convenience is important when you have
>     to code like we do today.
>
>     I don't really understand all the complexity in that thread.
>     Reading Joe response i understand that the current implementation
>     is not that flexible. But how difficult it would be to trick the
>     compiler to find module blocks? (like in c++ with objects).
>     Namespace collision can be detected at compilation. case
>     sensitivity is imo out of topic since anyway no real solution exist.
>
>     So coming back to my initial idea why having something like
>
>     -module(b).
>     ..
>     -endmodule.
>
>     couldd't be handeld by the compiler to recreate a module file and
>     handle it that way? I guess the main difficulty is for the
>     debugging. The generated module will need to be annotated to tell
>     where to find the initial line of code and there are probably some
>     other details of implementation. Anyway what do you think about it?
>
>     - benoît
>     On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 at 04:00, Richard A. O'Keefe
>     <ok@REDACTED <mailto:ok@REDACTED>> wrote:
>
>
>
>         On 25/02/16 1:53 pm, Loïc Hoguin wrote:
>         >
>         > A similar but larger pain point that's been rationalized by
>         people
>         > used to Erlang is the expression separators.
>
>         I take it you're referring to commas, semicolons, and full stops.
>
>         We have a complete solution to that called LFE.
>
>         We also have Elixir, which has enough syntactic weirdness of
>         its own
>         that I decided not to use it.
>
>         I briefly played with a Haskell-inspired syntax for Erlang,
>         which I still
>         think would be a good idea.  One thing I certainly kept in
>         that design
>         was -module directives because of the good they do.
>
>         I wouldn't say that I've *rationalised* the issue, just that I
>         stopped
>         falling off that particular bike very very quickly.
>
>         I don't think there is any point in trying to "fix" Erlang
>         syntax as it
>         stands.  I *do* think there is point in developing a whole *new*
>         self-consistent
>         syntax from the ground up, just like D didn't so much fix C's
>         syntax as
>         replace it.
>
>         (By the way, am I the only person here who remembers that Algol 68
>         used ";" for sequence and "," for parallel?  Hands up everyone
>         on the
>         list who has an Algol 68 implementation on their machine.)
>
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