Re: Renaming

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 06:22:19PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      
>      > file-handle-def.c
>      > file-handle-def.h
>      
>      => file-handle.[ch] I think.
>
> Won't this conflict with file-handle.q from src/language/data-io ?

Won't being in a different directory put it in a different
namespace?

>      > lex-def.c                             identifier.c
>      > lex-def.h                            identifier.h
>      
>      I would prefer token.[ch] because I would like to put more of the
>      lexical knowledge here eventually.
>
> I had to make this module specifically to allow the data files to be
> read/written (they need to know which names are reserved words, so as
> to prevent variables getting created with those names).  Perhaps the
> lexer needs to be split up a bit, but I think it'd be a mistake to put
> lexical knowledge into src/data.  In summary, this file's purpose is
> much more specific than a tokenizer, and I think it should remain so.

OK.

>      > som.c
>      > som.h
>      
>      => manager.[ch]
>
> Isn't this a bit vague ?

"som" isn't any good.  I'd like something better--suggestions
welcome.
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