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Re: Please drop the ^main^ thing

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On Sep 25, 2009, at 10:47 PM, Derick Eddington wrote:

On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 11:23 -0700, Derick Eddington wrote:

PLT's implicit file name is "main.sls", and it avoids conflicts by
prepending #\_.  E.g., (foo main) => "foo/_main.sls",
(foo _main) => "foo/__main.sls", and so on.

I think I can live with this more than ^main^.

It should also be noted that PLT's implicit file name is supported only for libraries with a single-component name. I.e., PLT does not support
having an implicit file name for longer library names like
(acme foo).

I don't like that since many packages I have are already one level up;
meaning, all the problems that the implicit file are supposed to solve
will still be there.  So, if we do adopt the implicit main, it should
be supported at all levels.

Aziz,,,