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Re: Naming modules (was: Re: getop-gnu-style.scm)



bothner@cygnus.com writes:
> > And people don't do it anyway; Per Bothner is
> > introducing classes called `guava.foo'.
> 
> Well, hardly.  I'm introducing classes such as:
> 
> 	gnu.math.IntNum  // a bignum class, in package gnu.math.
> 	gnu.expr.IfExp   // for compilers: conditional (if ...) expressions
> 
> I wrote a defense of why the gnu project should just use "gnu"
> as the top-level domain, rather than Sun's recommended "gnu.org"
> [some people have flamed gnu for ignoring Sun's broken "standard"],
> but it is not relevant to this discussion.  (Though maybe it is ...)
> 

Actually, sun would reccomend org.gnu.math.IntNum, etc. Is your essay
anywhere publicly readbale?

 - Maciej