Re: naming modules

[Bruce Stephens <b.stephens@isode.com>]

Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@mit.edu> writes:

> Actually, this in effect guarantees uniqueness by naming the module
> according to its full path in the filesystem. I don't think that is
> a good plan, it would make it impossible to write code that works on
> more than one system this way.

Why not adopt a CPAN (Perl) approach; a defacto global naming scheme
for modules?  That works because there is, in fact, CPAN; if there's
no obvious way for me to find modules, then I'm not going to know how
they're named.  

I presume the Python world has something similar.  Tcl doesn't, for
some reason; perhaps packages and namespaces are just too new a
feature in Tcl.