Cobra.Lang --> Cobra

[Charles]

Do we need the "Lang" in Cobra? Java does it with "java.lang.foo" but I don't really see the point.

Sound off.

[hopscc]

Probably not if we're going to continue to drop everything (lang support, libs,..) into Cobra.Lang.

It may be useful to distinguish the Cobra pieces a bit more
Cobra.Internal - language support ( Cobra.Lang.Internal)
Cobra.Lib (say) Cobra RTL pieces
Cobra.Extn - cobra supplementary librarys (occasionally useful but not core)

[Charles]

This still crosses my mind. Any protests?

I agree with Hops to some extent on the segregation but I think "Cobra.Extn" would actually be multiple "Cobra.Topic" libraries. Or those libraries could be hosted externally with their own project names which has already happened.

Items like CobraCore and various extension methods would still go in namespace "Cobra".

[hopscc]

go for it.

[Charles]

go for it.

Sounds good. It occurs to me that we have a Cobra.Compiler.dll now. Perhaps the library should be distinguished after all. How does Cobra.Core.dll sound?

[hopscc]

Just for the compiler binary Library?
Think you want to still have 'Compiler'in its (file)name somewhere...

Re Cobra.Extn vs Cobra.Topic namespaces

I vaguely recollect that the idea here was that items in Cobra.Extn would be implicitly loaded ( as well as Cobra.Internal and Cobra.Lib)
whereas Cobra.Topic items had to be explicitly specified (used/ -ref'd) to be loaded to resolve a compilation.
The idea here was for things that are generally useful but not as commonly used as Core items ( or may be promoted to Core eventually)

Personally it was also for me ( or anyone capable of rebuilding the dll) to add things that I want or think should be in Core but havent been able to get that to happen yet...
( i.e a simple way of providing a branch capability sandbox).

[Charles]

No, I meant the standard library would be Cobra.Core.dll and the current Cobra.Lang.Compiler.dll would become Cobra.Compiler.dll. Other libraries would be Cobra.Topic.dll.

I'm amenable to an env var COBRA_AUTO_REF that would allow one or more libs to be referenced and namespace used. This would allow you to augment your system or a server, and without even needing a Cobra workspace. If it's used then "cobra -v ..." should show it, of course.