stash stash of native collections ..
On Friday, May 1, 2015 at 1:42:08 AM UTC+8, Greg Hendershott wrote: > > I also found this confusing when becoming familiar with Racket. > > 1. I wonder if some diagram(s) could help organize this cluster of > concepts with has-a and is-a(-kind-of) relations? > > 2. > >> So trying to put this together. In racket then, there is a unique > special > >> place called "The Library". One may place collections in The Library, > by > >> installing them via a packet manager command. Then "library modules" > (i.e > >> modules found within a collection within The Library) may be accessed > via > >> unquoted path names embedded in require syntax. We then nix the terms > >> 'installed module' and instead use 'library module'. *Installing *is > then > >> a process for copying collections from packages and putting them in The > >> Library. It would make sense to point at a package and say that it has > >> been installed -- this would mean that the contained collections are in > >> "The Library". > > > > I like the idea of having a name for this concept, but since I (intend > > to) consistently use "library" as a subset of "module", I'm not > > enthusiastic about calling it "The Library". > > At the risk of bike-shed-naming (naming is hard, and everyone has an > opinion): > > Inventory > Cornucopia > Treasury > Locker > Trove > > I suppose in the Racket/Scheme tradition it should allude to a cache > of dubiously-acquired gains, loot or plunder. :) Some of the above are > close to that but not perfect. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/12849cc4-3400-4417-89f5-4fce373da74d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
