[m-rev.] for review: namespace changes

[Fergus Henderson]

On 04-May-2001, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 04-May-2001, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > 
> > There shouldn't "a whole bunch of special case code",
> > there should be just one piece of code that handles that.
> > There should be one piece of code that converts
> > a Mercury module name to an MLDS class name,
> > and one piece of code that converts an MLDS class name
> > to an IL namespace name and/or an IL class name,
> > and only one of those two pieces of code should need
> > to handle this conversion.
> 
> There is more special case code to handle the fact that we put
> the mercury.* modules into an assembly of their own.  This influences
> the handling of MLDS imports and assembly reference generation.

Ah, yes, I forgot about that.

But that's really a separate issue.
That special case code to put the standard library modules in an
assembly of their own would be just as necessary even if we
didn't add a "mercury." prefix to them.

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