Extensions to the module name system in H2020

[Wolfgang Jeltsch]

Am Dienstag, den 31.07.2018, 08:51 -0400 schrieb Daniel Cartwright:
> "There is also the situation where the package name isn’t essential
> and
> shouldn’t get in the way when naming modules. For example, there are a
> lot of monad transformers in the world. The `transformers` package
> implements some of them; others are added by other packages. It is
> good
> if the module that implements a certain kind of monad transformer has
> a
> name of the form `Control.Monad.Trans.⟨type-of-transformer⟩`. Having
> the
> package name in the module name would be like revealing an
> implementation detail."
> 
> Not sure I agree that that is necessarily the case.
> 
> Transformers.ExceptT
> Transformers.ReaderT
> These.ChronicleT
> 
> This lets me know exactly where these transformers came from, just by
> reading the module name.
But I don’t want to see where those transformers “came from” but that
they are certain monad transformers. The latter is expressed by the cons
istent naming Control.Monad.Trans.⟨type-of-transformer⟩.
All the best,
Wolfgang
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