Re: [Chicken-janitors] #703: Restructure core libraries

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#703: Restructure core libraries
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  Reporter:  felix           |       Owner:       
      Type:  defect          |      Status:  new  
  Priority:  major           |   Milestone:       
 Component:  core libraries  |     Version:  4.7.x
Resolution:                  |    Keywords:       
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Comment(by alaric):

 Names like 'extras' and 'utils' are certainly meaningless. It would be
 nice and clean if we could just filter them out into suitably-
 meaningfully-named libraries and just keep the generic names as re-
 exporting compatibility modules.

 Slightly trickier is if we want to move anything out of existing well-
 named modules such as 'ports', as then we can't have backwards
 compatability without choosing a new name for the new module that doesn't
 export the names in question.

 Personally, I'd like more finer-grained modules, avoiding generic terms
 such as "extras" as they just end up as grab-bags full of things, and
 looking for a function involves searching the list of modules for a
 specific module and then searching "extras" if you can't find it. In other
 words, I propose that the rule used to decide what granularity to use
 should be to put oneself in the shoes of somebody looking for any of the
 functions in a module, and seeing if all of those functions would seem to
 be implied by its name, without it misleadingly suggesting any functions
 that are elsewhere.

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