[m-dev.] Separate sub-module suggestions

Ralph Becket rafe at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Tue Mar 19 16:41:30 AEDT 2002


Simon Taylor, Tuesday, 19 March 2002:
> 
> I think that allowing partially qualified file names was a mistake.
> If the user wants to use anything other than the fully qualified name
> they should have to specify the module name to file name mapping for
> that module. That may not be acceptable now because it would break
> backwards compatibility.

How about issuing warnings about partially qualified file names?  For
old code it won't matter, but it will encourage people to use fully
qualified names in future.

- Ralph
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