[slime-devel] Re: structured package names?

[Marco Antoniotti]

On Aug 10, 2005, at 3:34 AM, Pascal Bourguignon wrote:

> 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

Excellent point.  I second that.

Also, it'd. be nice to either use the shortest nickname or to have a 
prefix that showed that there is "stuff" before.
E.g.

COM.INFORMATIGO.FOO would be rendered as

...FOO>

Or something similar.

Cheers
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