[racket-dev] [plt] Push #26372: master branch updated

Greetings.

On 2013 Feb 27, at 01:14, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:

> I think part of the problem is distinguishing "module declarations"
> (which don't have a phase) from "module instantiations" (which are
> normally phase-specific).

If 'which don't have a phase' is the key phrase, how about:

phase-neutral
phase-independent
unphased
phase-exempt

'phase-invariant' prompts (to me) the question '...under what transformation?'; 'phase-independent', like 'phase-neutral', in contrast suggests that the phase isn't relevant to them.

Norman


> 
> I want an adjective for a declaration that describes a treatment of its
> instances. "Phaseless" is bad, because no module declaration has a
> phase, but "all-phase" has the same problem.
> 
> "Phase-invariant" could work, although that sounds like a property that
> module declarations might have even if they're not treated specially.
> 
> How about "phase-collapsing"? That suggests more (to me) that something
> special is happening.
> 
> At Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:53:14 -0500, Ray Racine wrote:
>> all-phase modules
>> static modules
>> static-phase modules
>> phase-invariant modules
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Vincent St-Amour <stamourv at ccs.neu.edu>wrote:
>> 
>>> At Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:59:01 -0500,
>>> mflatt at racket-lang.org wrote:
>>>> 899a327 Matthew Flatt <mflatt at racket-lang.org> 2013-02-26 14:14
>>>> :
>>>> | add experimental support for "phaseless" modules
>>>> |
>>> 
>>> After reading the docs, I find the name "phaseless" confusing. IIUC,
>>> these modules are not special because they have no phase, but rather
>>> because they're the same at all phases.
>>> 
>>> Would "pan-phase", "omni-phase" or "cross-phase" be an accurate
>>> description?
>>> 
>>> Vincent
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