[racket-dev] submodules

At Wed, 7 Mar 2012 10:14:35 -0700, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> I've added "submodules" to a version of Racket labeled v5.2.900.1

Submodules are now pushed to the Racket git repo.


I haven't yet added a syntactic form to simplify

 (module* main #f
   ....)

My first idea was `main', as in

 (main
   ....)

but that seems too quiet and likely to create collisions. (It does
create a collision in part of the contract library, which imports
`racket/base' for syntax and defines a for-syntax `main' function.)

Jon suggests `submodule':

 (submodule main
   ...)

This suggestion has the advantage of replacing all `(module* .... #f
....)' combinations, and mostly I like this direction. However,
`submodule' would be only one way to define a "submodule", while
`submod' in a module path corresponds to "submodule" in the more
general sense. It could be that `submodule' is on the right path and
other terminology should change, or maybe there's a more specific word
to use for a `(module* .... #f ....)' replacement instead of `submodule'.