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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Drop module namespace from struct type in
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Evan Hanson |
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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Drop module namespace from struct type in `##sys#make-structure' specialisation |
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Fri, 24 Aug 2018 19:32:52 +1200 |
On 2018-08-24 9:27, Peter Bex wrote:
> I'd prefer to add the current module to struct type declarations, instead.
> This should be equally simple; I think we can add this to validate-type's
> handling of struct: if the struct is not qualified, add the current
> module (if any).
That approach has the problem megane described on the ticket. When it's
used, we don't have enough info to disambiguate one struct type from
another, unless you expect users to include a module prefix manually in
all cases. I think that's too big a change for 5.0.
Evan