Re: rename from q to queue

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès writes:

[...]

>> We could do a quick hack to iterate over the exported bindings,
>> re-export them, and print a message.
>>
>> However, I think it would be best to have a mechanism in the module
>> abstraction to /declare/ renames.  That would allow both the compiler
>> and the run-time support to emit an appropriate warning.
>>
>> This would require something like adding a special field to ‘module’
>> records, such that one can write, say:
>>
>>   (define-module (ice-9 q)
>>     #:superseded-by (ice-9 queue))
>>
>> With that in place, it will become much easier to discuss about ice-9
>> renames, IMO.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ludo’.
>
> I think that would be useful.  There's been talk about renaminig things
> from (ice-9) into a (guile) namespace.  Likewise aliasing things from
> (srfi) to something more human-readable.  Are the rename and aliasing
> thing the same step or two different things?

Module aliases and deprecation would probably be implemented similarly,
so there’s a connection between the two.

Ludo’.