Thus it was written in the epistle of Steve Simmons,
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 05:53:44PM -0400, Ted Ashton wrote:
>
> > I'll take that as my cue ;-).
>
> Ah, nothing like a man who knows when to pick up his cues.
:-)
> > <*shudder*> This whole business is getting pretty scary . . .
> [[ discussion of ugly implicatations elided ]]
>
> The short answer is that (assuming I understand Larry's statement)
> he'd like these issues addressed. If the resulting `best' answer
> is so complex and so ugly that he decides it's a bad idea, that's
> fine -- but (if I recall correctly) tcl has addressed this problem
> and come up with workable solutions. I'm not intimately familiar
> with them, but will get so.
Understood. After a bit of reflection on it, I got to wondering, what if it
1) Searched all of @INC for the most recent module which fits within the
constraints given (version range numbers, at least).
2) Loaded the module globally (as it does now) *unless* told not to. Thus,
if a module wanted to
use Foo private;
then it could.
As far as the author business goes, is it becoming unwieldy to have portions
of the namespace assigned to specific authors? That is, Devel::SmallProf is
mine (as per committee decision) and others wanting to write small profilers
can have TinyProf, MicroProf and so forth. I really think that multiple
versions of a module are a fairly natural thing, but that modules with the
same name by different folks are bound to cause confusion, much beyond the
actual running of programs.
PerlUserA: I keep having this problem with the Foo::Bar module. It won't
grok blargs as it ought.
PerlUserB: You must be doing something wrong. It works fine for me.
<*three day conversation ensues*>
PerlUserB: I give up. I don't know what you're doing wrong. Why don't you
write to Tom and ask him.
PerlUserA: Tom, why Tom?
PerlUserB: Because he wrote the module.
PerlUserA: No he didn't. Ilya wrote it.
Ted
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Ted Ashton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Info Sys, Southern Adventist University
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It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of
getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified
and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into
darkness again; the never-satisfied man is so strange if he has completed a
structure, then it is not in order to dwell in it peacefully, but in order
to begin another. I imagine the world conqueror must feel thus, who, after
one kingdom is scarcely conquered, stretches out his arms for others.
-- Gauss, Karl Friedrich (1777-1855)
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