Hi, I'm new to this list and I'm relatively new to Perl, so please be patient if I'm asking something stupid.
[As a side note: I asked a similiar question at [EMAIL PROTECTED], but didn't get much input regarding the namespace question.] I wrote a perl module for calculation of FIDE chess ratings (cmp. [1]). There are already two modules related to chess ratings at CPAN: * Chess::Elo (by Terrence Brannon) [2] This module calculates "Elo" ratings -- but it doesn't fit exactely with FIDE ratings, because the calculation method differs. * Chess::FIDE and Chess::FIDE::Player (by Roman Parparov) [3] This modules is used to parse players from the FIDE rating list. It doesn't calculate ratings. IMHO both names are a bit ambigous in so far as they don't reflect what the modules are doing actually. I came up with the idea to name my modules like Chess::Rating::Calculate::FIDE Chess::Rating::Calculate::DWZ ... I think about putting some generic, non-specific methods in a separate module, which wouldn't be useful by itself, but would be used by the more specific modules. Maybe it would be useful to put those generic methods to Chess::Rating::Calculate Unfortunately those names don't fit with the existing modules. Finally my questions: Is it bad practice to invent yet another namespace instead of adding to an existing one (Terrence Brannon offered me to use "his" Chess::Elo namespace)? Do you have any advices for me? Best regards Christian [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating [2] http://search.cpan.org/~tbone/Chess-Elo/ [3] http://search.cpan.org/~romm/Chess-FIDE/
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