[cdr-discuss] [CDR 2] What's the package?

[Pascal Costanza]

On 3 Dec 2006, at 14:30, Christophe Rhodes wrote:

> Pascal Costanza <pc at p-cos.net> writes:
>
>> The specification of generic hash tables misses a specification of
>> the package in which the functionality is to be found.
>
> Not in the version I'm looking at: section 1.2.1 (on the first page)
> is clear that the name is GENHASH, no?

Oops. Indeed, it couldn't be more clear than that...

>> On a more general note: Do we need a more general mechanism for
>> assigning package names? One potential problem I see coming up is
>> that each CDR uses its own package name, which could lead to a
>> proliferation of package names which in turn is also quite
>> inconvenient.
>
> Please, no.  If there is demand from users to aggregate
> implementations of CDRs into one package, then they can either define
> themselves or lobby their vendors to aggregate symbols from disparate
> packages into a single package.
>
>> Any ideas?
>
> I don't see why a proliferation of package names is inconvenient; even
> if it is, I don't see an already-accepted solution in the community
> out there.  (If you know of one, maybe you should write it up as a
> CDR... :-)

OK. ;)

(Which means: No, I don't know of one...)

Pascal

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