On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Mark Stosberg wrote: > And then the 1000 people who use their module can all do a find and > replace on all places where they have referenced the the module name > with the other authors ids. >
The namespaces don't have to change overnight. > And what happens when module author gets married and get a new > hyphenated last name? </sarcasm> How often do CPAN ids really change? I doubt that an extablished author would extend his given name change to his CPAN id. > > I have enough trouble remembering APIs without trying to remember > whether I need to load something in namespace of William, Will, Bill, > Willie, or Willy. > Why would that be? I mean, the odds are if you're dealing with a non-core Perl module, you're going to need to know the name if you want to download it in the first place. If you use a module long enough, you'll get used to how it's called. -------------------- Christopher Josephes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
