On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 08:38:26AM +0100, Richard Clamp wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 09:12:53AM +0200, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > > At 21:59 +0100 8/20/03, Sam Vilain wrote: > > >Any ideas for a better name for this module? > > >NAME > > > Defer - Defer execution of code until it is accessed > > > > Isn't this the same as Markov's Object::Realize::Later ? > > To my understanding it's a lot more like Simon Cozens's > Tie::Discovery, only with single scalars rather than hash entries.
Mmm. The perl community seems to be bad at finding suitably descriptive names for things, given the seeming inability of later programmers to find them, and save re-inventing wheels. The first solution that sprang into my mind was a "CPAN cookbook" but who wants to write that? Presumably there are better solutions. Nicholas Clark
