On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 05:50:55PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: > On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Allison Randal wrote: > : use Acme::N-1_0; # or whatever the format of the name is > > I don't see why it couldn't just be: > > use Acme::1.0;
I agree thats better. But why not separate the version more by using a different separator than :: between the module name and the version. Or even something like use Acme[1.0]; > After all, we don't have package names starting with numbers right now... Er, we do. http://search.cpan.org?perldoc?Pod::Simple::31337 It would seem that (currently) only the top-level namespace may not start with a number. But I would also not that CPAN only has 3 such modules, all by the same author and all ::31337 Graham.
