+1 - people have been using . as a delimiter for maven groupId and artifactId names for years, and I've never heard of someone's head exploding as a result.
Similarly, NetBeans module system has used . as a delimiter since 2000, and I don't recall ever seeing a message on the mailing lists (which I've been on since '99 and am still active on) having a problem with it. -Tim On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 12:59 PM, David M. Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote: > We've been (with JBoss Modules and thus our various application server > offerings) using module name conventions that match package names for > several years, and the number of people who have actually been confused by > it to my knowledge is exactly zero. > > The actual problem is probably quite overstated. People just don't seem > to have trouble with this (nor do people generally seem to get confused by, > for example, a C++ library name being the same as the root C++ namespace > used by that library, to draw another language equivalent). > > > On 10/28/2015 06:56 AM, Remi Forax wrote: > >> Hi Marrio, >> >> When creating a new application, using the prefix of the packages as name >> for a module seems intuitive and using '_' instead of '.' as separator >> inside the module name avoid the unecessary confusion for a human between a >> package and a module with the same name, it's just a code convention. >> >> When retrofitting an old application, like by example the JDK, you will >> group packages that have no a common prefix name or the common prefix can >> be used for several modules, in that case, having a module named java.base >> but no package java.base.something seems counter intuitive, using '_' >> instead of '.' make clear that a module name is just a name. >> >> regards, >> Rémi >> >> ----- Mail original ----- >> >>> De: "Mario Torre" <[email protected]> >>> À: "Paul Benedict" <[email protected]> >>> Cc: [email protected] >>> Envoyé: Mardi 27 Octobre 2015 23:41:05 >>> Objet: Re: Jigsaw @ JavaOne 2015 >>> >>> 2015-10-27 22:13 GMT+01:00 Paul Benedict <[email protected]>: >>> >>>> Thanks Mark. Great slides. I'd just like to throw out my impression >>>> (again) >>>> that module names with dots look like packages. How receptive is the EG >>>> to >>>> changing it to underscores? >>>> >>> >>> I think that this is the exact point, mapping to package seems quite >>> intuitive as it represents directly the content of the module. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Mario >>> >>> -- >>> pgp key: http://subkeys.pgp.net/ PGP Key ID: 80F240CF >>> Fingerprint: BA39 9666 94EC 8B73 27FA FC7C 4086 63E3 80F2 40CF >>> >>> Java Champion - Blog: http://neugens.wordpress.com - Twitter: @neugens >>> Proud GNU Classpath developer: http://www.classpath.org/ >>> OpenJDK: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/caciocavallo/ >>> >>> Please, support open standards: >>> http://endsoftpatents.org/ >>> >>> > -- > - DML > -- http://timboudreau.com
