[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: OpenGLRaw 1.0.0.0

Wolfgang Jeltsch g9ks157k at acme.softbase.org
Tue Jun 16 08:36:41 EDT 2009


Am Freitag, 12. Juni 2009 11:24 schrieb Sven Panne:
> A few final remarks: Leaving out "Graphics." completely would be a very bad
> idea, the naming hierarchy should reflect the underlying conceptual
> hierarchy. The only problem with hierarchies in general is that sometimes
> the position in it is not very clear. I have e.g. never fully understood
> why "Monad" and "Applicative" are below "Control", but "Foldable" is below
> "Data"...

This is a reason for me thinking that the naming hierarchy should not reflect 
the underlying conceptual hierarchy (completely). I’d like to propose a more 
flat structure.

The Yampa people and I (the Grapefruit maintainer) already agreed to introduce 
a top-level FRP namespace instead of putting FRP under Control or whatever. 
Graphics.UI is a bad choice in my opinion, since not all user interfaces are 
graphical (ncurses) and for those who are, it’s not so important anymore that 
they are (it was important in the 1980ies). So it might be good to change 
Graphics.UI to just UI. Then we might want to change Graphics.Rendering to 
just Graphics.

What do others think?

Best wishes,
Wolfgang


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