From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: %module-public-interface Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:56:02 +0200 Message-ID: <87zl1pv89p.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269982595 455 80.91.229.12 (30 Mar 2010 20:56:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:56:35 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 30 22:56:31 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NwiUB-00040p-7b for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:56:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46363 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NwiUA-0000Df-Kb for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:56:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NwiU3-0000DY-VO for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:56:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42363 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NwiU2-0000DO-PJ for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:56:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NwiU1-0007Tv-EK for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:56:22 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:46029) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NwiU1-0007Tk-4r for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:56:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NwiTw-0003qs-3F for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:56:16 +0200 Original-Received: from acces.bordeaux.inria.fr ([193.50.110.5]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:56:16 +0200 Original-Received: from ludo by acces.bordeaux.inria.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:56:16 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: acces.bordeaux.inria.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 10 Germinal an 218 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QFcc/pVNvCdNh/q2fh6lUmHi1fs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:10122 Archived-At: Howdy! Andy Wingo writes: > Do a (module-ref (resolve-module '(ice-9)) 'threads) > sometime. That’s the hierarchical naming scheme, not related to %module-public-interface but probably worth a discussion. > I'm pretty sure that the submodule thing can be changed without any > problem. But it seems that the %module-public-interface is used > explicitly, at least by texmacs and lilypond. How do they use it? > Any ideas on what the right thing to do is? Just leave it? Add fields to > modules for the public interface and submodules, but keep the > %module-public-interface binding? Throw up our hands and dance around? Yeah! And we could add a ‘public-interface’ slot to ‘module-type’ and have ‘module-public-interface’ and ‘set-module-public-interface!’ refer to it; for backward compatibility we’d also initialize the ‘%module-public-interface’ binding. How does it sound? Thanks, Ludo’.