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Having packages/modules be defined as single files is a fundamental programming language design error. #Python, but also #Erlang, #Scheme, the misguided package-inferred-system extension for #CommonLisp… Because no one wants a 10k lines file mixing dozens of concepts, you end up with a multitude of small packages for no good reason.

At least in Erlang you can just use whatever was loaded without manually importing every single module you need everywhere, but Python is as usual the worst.

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@marick not me, but thanks to your wikipedia link and @k9ox 's link to #elixir / #erlang behaviours, maybe several things are is starting to fall into place.
FYI I remember @marcevers being keen on DCI, but it didn't speak to me at the time. I now see links with the kind of designs that flow from #EventStorming . And somehow behaviours in #elixir make sense. I was programming a distributed system in #PhoenixLiveView without noticing (until the book pointed it out, that is :-) ) .

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between the range limits, without traversing the whole range (thus executing in
constant time and constant memory)."

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