# from Dominique Quatravaux
# on Friday 18 May 2007 12:23 pm:
>> Could most of that happen with qr/[Aa]pp(?:lication)?/ or whatever?
>> Sure.
>
>However good this practice is, it is a matter of coding style and
>therefore taste, and CPAN authors should be free to decline it.
>Enforcing best practices through namespaces is Oh So Not Perlish; more
>like Java!
Nothing I said was about enforcement. Nobody has a whacking stick long
enough to even reach most of the authors from any given geographic
location. I would have to be more than crazy to think anything could
be enforced. But I am not more than crazy.
I think bin:: would *support* the practice. I don't think recommending
it would get in anyone's way either. I even think it would also be
fine to apply this convention to programs nested in other
distributions.
As for taste: Most people will agree on something tasting very bad and
many people will agree on something tasting very good. So, we should
never just dismiss something as a matter of taste.
--Eric
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"If you only know how to use a hammer, every problem begins to look like
a nail."
--Richard B. Johnson
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