On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:16:51PM +0100, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:32:13PM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote: > > > Hi. I'm about to write a module which presents an array in sorted order; > > $a[0] will always be the "least" element by some comparator. Miraculously, > > there doesn't seem to be such a beast on CPAN already. > > > > Is Tie::Array::Sorted a reasonable name for it, or would another one be more > > obvious?
> s/Tie::// ? > > Do I need to be concerned with how the module is implemented? > Presumably the documentation will tell me how to use it. > > Yes, this probably applies to the rest of the Tie:: namespace too. Oh, I was going to say this. Tie::Array::Sorted is a good name because it is consistent with many other modules. But I consider them all to be misnamed. The implementation is not the most important feature of these modules - why is it the most important part of their names? Nicholas Clark
