yep, it's purely a matter of namespace pollution. Such a set of "standard" modules makes things more clear, nothing else. The thing of physically moving the source is purely a matter of maintainability, of certain common things the functions might share, etc. etc. - nothing else :) I think that such a module is a purely organizational one, albeit very useful.
/ Marek Habersack (Grendel)
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2002-09-04 18:15: Subject: POSIX module
Thanks for the clarification. Then my earlier comment (8973117) still applies regarding that some functions should not be removed from the top level (sleep, abs, acos, ceil, exec), and that it should be clear that functions like POSIX.sleep and POSIX.abs are only aliases that doesn't actually use the libc implementations.
I can point out that I also never touched the issue of where the function implementations should be. As you say, it really doesn't matter.
/ Martin Stjernholm, Roxen IS