Use Gist. It's a great word: short, to the point, and exactly conveys what you're trying to do. If someone doesn't know what a word means, they can use a dictionary. Perl has never been about dumbing down use of language!
If we have "glob", "splice", "zero width negative lookahead assertion", I see no objection to "gist". On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Nigel Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > >> >> > How about Essential:: or Essence:: ? The problem with adding something >> > to the end is that you might conflict with the original module's >> > naming scheme. By contrast, starting a new top-level namespace makes >> > the project look more cohesive, and provides an obvious location for >> > the core philosophy. >> >> A good point. Linguistically, of course, it should be EssentialsOf:: - >> after all, you would talk about "the essentials of CPAN.pm" and "the >> CPAN.pm essentials". >> > > OK. So it sounds like there should be a top-level name space - I'm just not > sure about the length of 'EssentialsOf' .... I initially started with - > atomic, nano (i.e., smaller than tiny), uno (for one method only - probably > not doable) --- or you could go for an acronym ... > > EOF - essentials of? > > EOF::DBIx::Simple > EOF::Template::Simple > Eof::DBIx::Simple > > Hmmm - not sure ... it's slightly overloaded with end of file. > > I'd like to keep the prefix short so it acts more like a pointer ... > > >> > The other potential advantage that the prefix namespace affords is >> > that in pathological cases, you can extract multiple essences from >> > the same original module. I'm not sure this is necessarily a good >> > idea, though. >> >> I think it could be a good idea. There are modules out there which are >> rather like those crazy tramps who wander around with a shopping trolley >> piled high with plastic bags containing the mouldering remains of their >> possessions. DateTime, for example, has methods for handling timezones; >> methods for doing date/time maths; methods for formatting dates/times. > > > Haha ... the DateTime module makes me think of Gregorian monks brewing beer > playing April fools jokes on each other. Meanwhile I really just need to > know the date for yesterday. > > >> Quite often when I use it I only want to use one very small part of it. >> Or CGI.pm, which has methods for handling forms; methods for handling >> cookies; and methods for generating HTML. > > > Yes. When I first learnt Perl CGI.pm was a scary module - it's things like > this you could hide under the covers - until if/when the user wants it. > > NIge > > > _______________________________________________ > BristolBathPM mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm > >
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