Re: Really auto autoloaded modules

[John Porter]

Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> A gut feeling that I have is we can't simply go by interface 'names',
> be they just simple names of funtions/methods or their full 'signatures'
> 
> What I think is needed is some sort of opaque tag: the name of the
> 'contract' the API claims to fulfill.  The name can be the name of
> the standard, the name of the company, the name of the individual.


I rather like the idea that contract names are themselves namespace
names.  A contract version's name is thus defined within that
contract's namespace.

E.g.
        "specifies Foo::Bar" -- I specify a contract.

        "implements Foo::Bar::quux" -- I implement the Foo::Bar
                contract, specifically the quux version thereof.

In any case, version idents should be legal perl identifiers;
they can't really be numbers, since they are not inherently
ordered.  I could number *mine* jdp1, jdp1_1, etc., if I want...

-- 
John Porter

You can't keep Perl6 Perl5.