Simon Peyton-Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not against this, but I urge that we postpone it until after 6.10.
> There'll be quite a bit of settling down to do, I predict.
Actually, since the module namespace is one of the few extensions that
is purely lexical, I think it is easy to guarantee that there will be no
need for a settling down period. In the scenario where you _only_
change the module names (i.e. not the names of exported entities to
remove tc_ prefix etc), you either get the module names right, or it
will fail to compile. Once it compiles, the module names must be
correct.
That was certainly our experience in the Yhc/nhc98 codebase.
However, the restructuring of the internal entity names (e.g. to remove
tc_ prefixes) is an entirely different matter, and I would indeed urge
you to leave that until after the 6.10 fork. But if you have already
changed the module names, merging these later changes down from the HEAD
to the 6.10 branch will be a _lot_ more straightforward than if you
postpone both kinds of change until after the fork.
Regards,
Malcolm
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