On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
On 2008 Aug 19, at 12:20, Iavor Diatchki wrote:
I think that it is a much better idea to use the package name as the top-level module name space, as we have already put some effort in ensuring that these are more or less unique.
May I suggest the Alexandrian solution? Module aliases. "alias Foo-package.Data.HashSet as Data.HashSet".
Or what about using Lib top-level for new libraries written by only a few authors and used by only a few users. When it becomes clear that many people need it or there are multiple packages for the same purpose, they can start a joint effort to create "the real thing" in the existing module hierarchy. This way 'Lib' would be the sand-box and 'Data' and friends are for the "standards".