[slime-devel] Re: structured package names?

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Peter Seibel writes:
> Friedrich Dominicus <frido at q-software-solutions.de> writes:
> 
> > "Marco Baringer" <mb at bese.it> writes:
> >
> >> Friedrich Dominicus <frido at q-software-solutions.de> writes:
> >>
> >>> Is that on purpose? Is it a bug, is something wrong with a foo.bar
> >>> name?
> >>
> >> this behaviour is controlled by the
> >> swank:*auto-abbreviate-dotted-packages* variable, set it to NIL in
> >> your .swank.lisp to avoid this behaviour. You will still get the
> >> 'shortest-package-nickname' though (i don't see a variable to disable
> >> even that).
> 
> > thanks for the hint. I did not expect special treatment for that I did
> > not even had an idea to look after that.
> 
> FWIW, I put in that feature because I believe in using long, domain
> qualified package names (a la Java packages) which means that my
> package names are always prefaced with essentially noise. I'd much
> rather see:
> 
>   FOO>
> 
> than:
> 
>   COM.GIGAMONKEYS.FOO>
> 
> when *all* my package names start with COM.GIGAMONKEYS. But the flag
> is there to turn it off if you don't like (which you probably won't if
> you use short package names that happen to contain a dot.)

The algorithm should check for the presence of several packages with
the same last part, and use more parts in these cases.

COM.GIGAMONKEYS.FOO       --->  GIGAMONKEYS.FOO
COM.INFORMATIMAGO.FOO           INFORMATIMAGO.FOO


UK.CO.SMART-SOFT.FOO      --->  UK.CO.SMART-SOFT.FOO
TW.CO.SMART-SOFT.FOO            TW.CO.SMART-SOFT.FOO


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