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From: "Doug Way" <dway at riskmetrics.com>
To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Modules] Upper case message names for accessing modules


>
> goran.hultgren at bluefish.se wrote:
> >
> > Doug Way <dway at riskmetrics.com> wrote:>
> >
> > > Göran also refers to "neighbor" modules, which sounds vaguely familiar
from long-ago discussions on this list.
> >
> > Thanks for bothering with my dots! My name sounds so much better then!
> > :-) :-) (ö like in "k(E)rnel" and G like in "(Y)ikes")
>
> No problem.  I have no idea how to type in an ö, but I do know how to cut
& paste. :)
>
> > > (I may be oversimplifying, but it sounds like neighbor modules could
be considered the required (imported, prerequisite, etc.)
> > > modules for a particular module?  If so, I wonder if a term like
"prerequisite" might more accurately describe
> > > this one-way relationship.  The term "neighbor" implies a two-way
sibling-like relationship to me.)
> >
> > It is actually explained in the class comment of Module. Don't you have
> > a 3.3alpha image up and running?! :-)
> > In short it says:
> >
> > "All "neighbor modules"--external modules, submodules, module
> > parameters, delta modules--are held in an OrderedCollection to strictly
> > define the order of lookup for names defined outside this module."
> >
> > ...and that is actually also the name of the instance variable. Henrik
> > had probably a hard time to come up with a name for this because a
> > Module sees exported names for both external modules (what you would
> > call typical "imports" or "prefrequisites"), submodules, module
> > parameters and deltamodules.
> >
> > So the neighbors are simply ALL other Modules that the Module "sees". We
> > might come up with a better name but the name "prerequisite" does not
> > seem to cover more than perhaps the external modules.
>
> Ah, that makes sense then.  "Neighbor" sounds like a reasonable name in
that context.
>
> - Doug Way
>   dway at riskmetrics.com
>
>