Re: More 6PAN musings: local namespaces

2002-06-18 Thread Damian Conway
Larry has previously mentioned the prospect of Perl 6 module names being extended to include version number and author. If this were to be done, would seem reasonable for the author component to simply be the author's CPAN username. These are guaranteed unique, are frequently mnemonic, are

Re: More 6PAN musings: local namespaces

2002-06-18 Thread Damian Conway
Larry has previously mentioned the prospect of Perl 6 module names being extended to include version number and author. If this were to be done, would seem reasonable for the author component to simply be the author's CPAN username. These are guaranteed unique, are frequently mnemonic, are

Re: More 6PAN musings: local namespaces

2002-06-18 Thread John Siracusa
On 6/18/02 6:10 PM, Damian Conway wrote: Larry has previously mentioned the prospect of Perl 6 module names being extended to include version number and author. If this were to be done, would seem reasonable for the author component to simply be the author's CPAN username. These are

Re: More 6PAN musings: local namespaces

2002-06-18 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, John Siracusa wrote: : On 6/18/02 6:10 PM, Damian Conway wrote: : Larry has previously mentioned the prospect of Perl 6 module names being : extended to include version number and author. : : If this were to be done, would seem reasonable for the author component to :

Re: More 6PAN musings: local namespaces

2002-06-18 Thread John Siracusa
On 6/18/02 8:32 PM, Larry Wall wrote: I expect to end up with a multi-level system, where you can use anything from a DNS name (guaranteed to contain dots) through author IDs (no dots) to blessed top-level names for universally acclaimed modules, for some definition of universal. I'm not