Re: Namespace changes

2001-08-21 Thread Robin Berjon
On Monday 20 August 2001 23:16, David Cantrell wrote: That still doesn't mean that Foo::Bar::Baz-style names don't give us some benefits. For example, Date::Convert::FrenchRevolution tells us that the module is for converting dates to and from whatever madness the French revolutionaries

Re: Namespace changes

2001-08-20 Thread Robin Berjon
On Monday 20 August 2001 04:12, Rich Bowen wrote: Bah, now I can't find the article in the archived. Basically he said that 3-level names (foo::bar::baz) were unnecessarily hard to find, and did not do anything to improve the situation. I'm still looking for the actual postings, and I can't

Re: Namespace changes

2001-08-20 Thread Bruce Van Allen
At 7:09 PM -0400 8/20/01, Rich Bowen wrote: OK, just making sure that I had the support of a few folks. Remember, I'm the one that proposed the change in the first place, so I still think it's a good idea. Mostly, I just have not had time. So it seems, then, that the sentiment is still for this

Re: [Reefknot-devel] Namespace changes

2001-08-13 Thread Jesse
On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 09:07:54AM +0200, Abigail wrote: Hm, that sounds like a sane idea. put a BEGIN block in that bitches if you're using the old module instead of the new module, but otherwise just wrapper the old module. Huh? What's the point of that? To even get such a module,

Namespace changes

2001-08-12 Thread Rich Bowen
Anyone know what the accepted procedure is to change the name of a module? I presume I just have to talk to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] guys, for the CPAN portion of this. But with regard to changing the name of a module in such a way that folks using the module don't suddenly find that their code does

Re: [Reefknot-devel] Namespace changes

2001-08-12 Thread srl
On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Jesse wrote: The only ones of these that I think are actually being used by more than one person is Date::ICal and perhaps Date::Leapyear. If it's in CPAN, that's never a safe assumption. :/ I think he meant module author when he said person. What have others of