On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 02:55:08PM -0800, David Wheeler wrote:
> On Jan 4, 2005, at 2:47 PM, Bruce J Keeler wrote:
>
> >I've always felt that this one should have a lowercase name, since it's
> >rather pragma-ish. Are pragmas allowed outside of the core Perl
> >distribution? Maybe it should be submitted as a core pragma, actually.
> >It's a really lightweight beast, and very useful. Would certainly get
> >my vote.
>
> I agree that it should be lowercased; yes, there are modules on CPAN
> that look like pragmas (such as only). I personally would prefer,
> however, that the name tell me that it's doing something more than
> loading a class; "class" and "module" don't do that. Here are some
> other options:
>
> * alias (too close to "Aliased"?)
> * nickname
> * moniker
> * pseudonym
> * aka
> * anonym
> * handle (not a file handle, though, might be confusing)
> * label
> * term
> * shortcut
>
> I kind of like "aka", actually. But nickname, moniker, and shortcut are
> all good, too.
>
My 2c, which works out to about .012 euro these days:
I kind of like aka too. Most of the others are either unmemorable
or might easily conflict with unrelated things - term sounds like terminal
handling, for example.
That said, I think 'alias' sounds right on, since that's exactly
what it does and I don't think it's too close to 'Aliased'.
Austin
