Module System

[Ben Rudiak-Gould]

Simon Marlow wrote:
> there's a lack of modularity in the current
> design, such that renaming the root of a module hierarchy requires
> editing every single source file in the hierarchy.  The only good reason
> for this is the separation between language and implementation.

I don't see how this is related to implementation. Surely all the language 
spec has to say is that the implementation has some unspecified way of 
finding the code for a module given only its canonical name, along with (if 
desired) a way of expanding a glob to a list of canonical names. Then the 
module namespace reform boils down to rules for converting partial names 
into canonical names. I can't see how any useful functionality in the module 
system could depend on a particular way of organizing code on disk.

-- Ben