On 9/11/06, Larry Wall wrote:
Only that I'm thinking of renaming all the meta-ish methods to use
interrogative pronouns:
.META -> .HOW
.SKID -> .WHO
.PKG -> .WHAT
.VAR -> .WHERE
.WHO and .WHAT strike me as better being swapped. Maybe...
or some such. Not sure what .WHEN or .WHY would mean offhand...
I'd say .WHY should return a chunk of POD representing the associated
documentation.
Also, arguably VAR() is in a different category entirely. In which case
.WHERE might be the full package name, and .WHAT the short name.
In that case, .WHO definitely makes more sense for the name.
-David
