Re: Renaming src/

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 08/14/2012 04:58 PM, Rik wrote:
> On 08/14/2012 01:39 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> > Message: 6
> > Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 13:54:27 -0500
> > From: Daniel J Sebald<address@hidden>
[snip]
> > 2) The "fcn" is almost a redundancy, unless the implication is that
> > there is some function in Octave called "core" and some function inside
> > Octave called "interp".  Otherwise, if it just means inside the
> > directory are some functions related to "core", for example, then what
> > else would the programmer think is in there if it were just "src/core"?
> > 3) There's "corefcn", there's "interpfcn", and then there's a
> > combination of the two "interp-core".  Perhaps that's correct, but on
> > first read it makes one pause.
> There are some reasons for this.  "interp-core" is for code which is at the
> heart of the interpreter and which does not export any user visible
> functions.  "interpfcn" is for code that has functions the user can see
> such as warning() or dbstop().  "corefcn" is for functions which are at the
> heart of mathematical analysis, such as inv() or eig(), but which aren't
> related to the interpreter.  Lastly "dldfcn" is for dynamically loaded
> functions.  I'm open to a better naming scheme as long as the distinctions
> that have currently been made can still be made.

OK, probably John is the best to weigh in on that since it is a small 
group that knows the interpreter real well.  I'll just toss out some 
words here

Code which is at the heart of the interpreter:
interp/core
coreintrp

Code that has functions the user can see such as warning() or dbstop():
interp/base
baseintrp
interp/fund
fundintrp
interp/mech (mechanics)
mechintrp

Functions which are at the heart of mathematical analysis:
math
mathcore
mathbase

I welcome any more ideas.


> The other hyphenated directories--"octave-value", "template-inst",
> "parse-tree"--come from trying to be specific about what is in them without
> using CamelCase.  Since spaces aren't good, and jwe prefers hyphens over
> underscores, that is what we came up with.

octave-value is the one that sort of makes sense to me because it 
coincides with the all-important octave_value class.  "template-inst" 
might be fine as just "template" or "tmplt".  Is there something 
important about the "inst", which I assume means instance or instantiation?

Dan