* Ruud H.G. van Tol ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060305 18:11]:
> Juerd schreef:
> > hierarchical names make less
> > and less sense by the day
>
> I don't oversee the field yet, but maybe:
> Introduce aliases (or hardlinks, in file-system-speak).
> Likely in a separate top branch, such as "@alias::".
> The @alias-prefix is only necessary when there is a collision.
Once upon a time, I had to categorize the subjects of 20k websites in
some logical structure, and then I discovered why the yellow pages
have a flat organization...
Of course, hierarchical names get less and less useful when your
set grows larger. But it is better than nothing.
> @alias::HTTPD::Session -> Apache::Session
> HTTPD::Session -> Apache::Session
Well, that's a technical solutions... your fill the name-space even more:
the larger the harder to grasp. In general, it has many benefit to pick
one name, and solve everything else via a searching mechanism like
search.cpan.org.
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