Re: %module-public-interface

[Andy Wingo]

On Tue 30 Mar 2010 22:56, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

>> I'm pretty sure that the submodule thing can be changed without any
>> problem. But it seems that the %module-public-interface is used
>> explicitly, at least by texmacs and lilypond.
>
> How do they use it?

Linking to the evil empire:

http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=%25module-public-interface&sbtn=Search
http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=%25module-public-interface+lang%3Ac%2B%2B&sbtn=Search

>> Any ideas on what the right thing to do is? Just leave it? Add fields to
>> modules for the public interface and submodules, but keep the
>> %module-public-interface binding? Throw up our hands and dance around?
>
> Yeah!
>
> And we could add a ‘public-interface’ slot to ‘module-type’ and have
> ‘module-public-interface’ and ‘set-module-public-interface!’ refer to
> it; for backward compatibility we’d also initialize the
> ‘%module-public-interface’ binding.  How does it sound?

Dancing? OK!

Also back compatibility. Er, yeah :)

Andy
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