[m-rev.] for review: automatic_include declaration

Simon Taylor stayl at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Sat Nov 17 19:16:48 AEDT 2001


On 17-Nov-2001, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 17-Nov-2001, Simon Taylor <stayl at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > On 16-Nov-2001, Peter Ross <peter.ross at miscrit.be> wrote:
> > > Add the `:- automatic_include' declaration.
> > >
> > > This declaration allows one to automatically import a sub-module when
> > > the parent module is imported.
> > 
> > I think `:- automatic_import' would be a better name.
> 
> I'm not really very keen on this extension,
> but as far as names are concerned, I'd go for `:- auto_import'.

I'd prefer `:- auto_import_module', for consistency with the other
module system declarations.

Simon.
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