On Mon, November 25, 2013 5:27 am, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
> Hi Philippe,
>
> there are two issues causing a problem with naming for this module:
>
> 1. very specific form of input required/expected (hash of weights)
> 2. tightly bound to a DSL as its API
>
> If you want to be descriptive then you simply cannot give a module like
> this a terribly generic name. To cover (2), you need ::Rules. To cover
> (1), you basically need to name all aspects: takes a hash, specifically
> one where the values are weights, and reduces it to a single value. So
> I ended up with
>
> Hash::Reduce::Weighted::Rules
>
> Itâs a mouthful but seems necessary to accurately summarize the module.
> None of the names that omit any of these components felt satisfactory:
> whichever one you take out, the shorter name seems to describe a very
> different module.
>
I can't disagree much, but I find that returning to my suggestion of
"GroupBy" works well with:
Hash::GroupBy::Weighted
since GroupBy implies Rules. For what it's worth.
-john
