[m-rev.] splitting io.m

[Paul Bone]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 04:43:55PM +1000, Peter Wang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Would there be any opposition to splitting io.m into multiple modules,
> while maintaining the interface?  Most of the predicates have the
> exported Mercury predicate wrapping private foreign_procs.  I'm thinking
> the foreign_procs can be moved into submodules.  The submodules might be

I've also considered splitting up IO.

I started with moving file and directory handling stuff into dir.m.  There
is definitely some scope overlap between io.m and dir.m both doing filesystem
things.

>     io.error
>     io.read
>     io.write
>     io.seek
>     io.file_type
>     io.rename
>     io.file_time
>     io.environ
>     io.system
>     io.make_temp
>     ...

This is more finer-grained than I would have chosen.  Also I was going to
move all things, not just the foreign code, into the other
modules/submodules.

This isn't an objection and I don't think it's that strong of a concern.

Cheers.


-- 
Paul Bone