At 12:48 a.m. 27/06/00 +0200, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 16:09:57 -0400, "Luis E. Muņoz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
>
> >> It indeed looks much more intuitive than before. Just one thing,
> >> there's a long standing tradition to discourage
> >> extremely::deep::nesting::namespaces. E.g. one could shorten
> >> Net::Address to NetAddr. No matter how ugly it looks, it seems
> >> understandable and less to type. Leading to
> >>
> >> IP::Address --> NetAddr::IP
> >> Tie::IP::Address --> Tie::NetAddr::IP
> >> Net::Subnet::Count --> NetAddr::IP::Count
>
> > This is ok with me, but it will create another item into the 'root' of
> > the name space :) I guess it's your call in this one ;) You might want to
> > consider Net::Addr::... to avoid the new root name (unless NetAddr already
> > exists)
>
>You are right, it's a judgement call. No NetAddr is not an existing
>namespace but I'd open it. Existing namespaces matching /^Net/ would
>be
>
> Net
> NetCDF
> NetObj
> NetPacket
> NetServer
> Net__ICal
> Netscape
> Netware
> Network
>
>Where that Net__ICal looks like an accident to me.
Ok then. I'll release new versions of the modules with the new names.
Just let me know once they're ready.
Thanks a lot.
-lem
