Michael Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 10:37:02AM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
> > Michael Fowler sent the following bits through the ether:
> >
> > > Personally, I think FindBin is a bit of a sore thumb. Its name, the
> > > capitalization of its variable names
> >
> > I suppose we could try and define some Perl Naming Conventions - ie
> > instead of DumpCore() we should have dump_core(). This'll really annoy
> > Java programmers. Other ideas needed though...
>
> I think no matter what is decided, consistency-wise, someone is going to be
> unhappy with it. If we use DumpCore() the C programmers won't like us,
> dump_core() and the C++ and Java programmers will throw fits. I think the
> best thing we can do is decide on what -Perl- programmers want.
> Unfortunately, this is rather difficult to pin down, but we should probably
> take hints from the language itself.
>
> I'm going to wait until Gisle Aas puts out his RFC, and bat it around at
> that point.
I don't think I promised to do anything. You must be waiting for
somebody else.
--Gisle
> That way we have a list of what needs to be made consistent
> (methods look like this, variables that do this look like that, etc.) and
> what needs to be made consistent (this module isn't consistent, fix it)
> [intentional redundancy there].
