[m-dev.] io streams

[Fergus Henderson]

On 23-Dec-1999, Michael Day <mcda at cat.cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> > When we put everything in the `std' module, we don't need to add `std'
> > prefixes to all the declarations in the standard library.  That would
> > be a significant increase in verbosity for very little increase in
> > clarity.  After all, the standard library's interface doesn't depend
> > on any other library, so if we were to add such prefixes then _every_ symbol
> > in the interface of the standard library would need a `std' prefix.
> 
> Do we need to make all the module files begin with std.* ?

No, even the file names can stay unchanged.
For a module such as `foo__bar__baz', the compiler searches
in `foo.bar.baz.m', `bar.baz.m', and then `baz.m'.

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