* Andrew M. Langmead <aml at world.std.com> [2003-02-10 22:47]:
> On the other hand, when talking with the rest of the Boston.com dev
> team about a new local namespace, I suggested that Local:: is exactly
> what we were looking for. (I don't think the Foo_Corp:: suggestion was
> there at the time) Everyone else argued against it.
My objection to Local:: was, and still is, that it is meaningless: It
doesn't convey anything useful about the module itself, other than that
the writer couldn't/didn't think of a better name. It's the foo of
namespaces.
That L<perlmodlib> suggests Local:: for local modules doesn't impress me --
the fact that a module is not intended to be used outside of a
company doesn't mean that it shouldn't have a usefully descriptive name.
As ugly as Foo_Corp:: is, at least it is minimally descriptive (emphasis
on "minimally").
> If I understood their concerns correctly, it was because it was
> aesthetically displeasing.
Though I can't speak for any of the other developers, my aesthetic
objections were secondary, though Local:: is a horrible name. If we
were going to choose something non-descriptive and arbitrary, I would
have much preferred WalterJr:: or ItsNotAPenguin::.
(darren)
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