Hi all. I'd like to suggest a slight reorganisation within the specs.
The first thing I've observed is that, in defining the IO stuff, and
adding in the Tree and DateTime stuff, is that we're getting a lot of non-IO
stuff in there.
I'm aware that the numbering and ordering of the specs is based on the
chapters in the Camel book. It seems like a lot of this stuff that I'm
working on would really belong under 32: Standard Modules. But there's a lot
of this stuff, and, while the Camel book just gives an overview of each
module, we want to specify the API.
I'm not suggesting here that we specify the interfaces to all the
modules listed in the Camel book, or anything like that. Instead, I'm
suggesting that the S32 space be used for documenting the objects that we
don't seem to be able to get away from.
My thought is that, at the moment, these are:
- The function groups documented in S29
- The IO, Tree, and DateTime stuff being drafted in S16
After looking through the Phlanx project (which lists 100 or so top
perl modules), and the list in the Camel book, I can only see one or two other
things we might eventually need, and these can be worried about later.
Anyway, my suggestion is that a folder called S32-standard-modules be
created in the Spec directory, and that within this folder, the following
files be created from the specified sources:
- Tree.pod -- S16
- DateTime.pod -- S16 (needs lots of work)
- IO.pod -- S16
- Most of the stuff from the S29 "Function Packages", in separate files
This would leave S29 free to be solely a list of the functions that
do not need to have a package specified when called, and can in most cases
simply specify what standard library functions they call.
It would also leave S16-IO free to deal with things that are not
specific to the object(s).
Thoughts?
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