Glasgow mafia meeting at PLDI

Simon Marlow simonmar@microsoft.com
Tue, 26 Jun 2001 12:59:22 +0100


> > Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak@knm.org.pl> writes:
> > > Wouldn't putting domain names in the root of the hierarchy be OK?
> > > The set of top-level domain names is very stable and there are no
> > > clashes.
> >
> > There are an awful lot of them: one for each country in the=20
> world.  I
> > don't think there's a country called "Prelude" but there probably is
> > one with the domain name "IO".
>=20
> Maybe I'm missing something, what's wrong with putting the=20
> standard stuff
> under Org.Haskell? For example:
>=20
>   Org.Haskell.Prelude
>   Org.Haskell.IO

No problem, just that the names tend to get a little long.  It makes
sense to keep things as flat as possible unless there is a real reason
not to do so.

Cheers,
	Simon