Larry has previously mentioned the prospect of Perl 6 module names being extended to
include version number and author.
If this were to be done, would seem reasonable for the "author" component to simply be
the author's CPAN username. These are guaranteed unique, are frequently mnemonic, are
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Larry has previously mentioned the prospect of Perl 6 module names being extended to
include version number and author.
If this were to be done, would seem reasonable for the "author" component to simply be
the author's CPAN username. These are guaranteed unique, are frequently mnemonic, are
n
On 6/18/02 6:10 PM, Damian Conway wrote:
> Larry has previously mentioned the prospect of Perl 6 module names being
> extended to include version number and author.
>
> If this were to be done, would seem reasonable for the "author" component to
> simply be the author's CPAN username. These are g
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, John Siracusa wrote:
: On 6/18/02 6:10 PM, Damian Conway wrote:
: > Larry has previously mentioned the prospect of Perl 6 module names being
: > extended to include version number and author.
: >
: > If this were to be done, would seem reasonable for the "author" component to
On 6/18/02 8:32 PM, Larry Wall wrote:
> I expect to end up with a multi-level system, where you can use anything from
> a DNS name (guaranteed to contain dots) through author IDs (no dots) to
> blessed top-level names for universally acclaimed modules, for some definition
> of universal.
I'm not