Hi Dan, Specifying load order in a load.factor is redundant, if you have exactly one file per vocabulary, because then the USING: forms already have all the information needed. That is Ed's point, and the key idea behind his module system.
Slava On 20-Jan-07, at 5:21 PM, Daniel Ehrenberg wrote: > How are those warts? There's a lot of information in there. For XML, > for example. the load.factor has had the order of loading modules > changed many times when I reorganize the module. What if I counted > every USING: or IN: line and declared that Factor had, say, 523 warts? > There's nothing wrong with having a module system that requires that > the programmer write stuff, as long as that stuff contains > information. > > On 1/19/07, Eduardo Cavazos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Slava, >> >> Let's compare warts. :-) Before I mentioned that I don't care for >> load.factor >> files as they do the job of a directory; indicate a set of files. >> >> The current module system has, let me see, >> >> find libs/ -name load.factor | wc -l ... >> >> 41 warts. ;-) >> >> How many lines are used in those loads? >> >> wc -l `find libs/ -name load.factor` ... >> >> 426 >> >> That's just the libs directory. For all modules, it's 78 files and >> 1126 lines. >> >> That's alot of overhead for an organization scheme. >> >> Ed >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---- >> Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT >> Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to >> share your >> opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn >> cash >> http://www.techsay.com/default.php? >> page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV >> _______________________________________________ >> Factor-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to > share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php? > page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Factor-talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
