[Gretl-devel] Belated response to Sven on function packages

Sven Schreiber svetosch at gmx.net
Fri Apr 27 04:21:17 EDT 2007


Allin Cottrell schrieb:
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Sven Schreiber wrote:

>>> - P's public interface (which should have the same name as the 
>>> package) will _not_ appear as packageable.  That's intentional: 
>>> it's already packaged and shouldn't appear as the public interface 
>>> of any other package.
>> Can you remind me again why the names should match? 
> 
> Urgh, I have to remind myself first!
> 
>> Couldn't the name of the public interface function be completely 
>> invisible to the package user...
> 
> Then you'd only be able to call them from the GUI, not from 
> scripts.  I don't think we want that.
> 

Ah okay, I hadn't thought of that...

-sven


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