On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 11:16:26PM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: > On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 11:23:17PM +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 10:18:32PM +0200, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > > > At 10:14 PM 7/12/02 +0200, Johan Vromans wrote: > > > >Elizabeth Mattijsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > The reason I reported two bugs today? I ran into them developing the > > > > > threads::farm module, now available from CPAN. > > > >Which raises, again, the issue: module or pragma? > > > > > > Eh... I thought pragma's were only lowercase in the top-level namespace? > > > > So far we haven't had multipart lowercase names (all lowercase like > > threads::shared or partly lowercase like PerlIO::via), so the reules > > don't quite anticipate this. I think we really, REALLY, should keep > > pure non-pragma modules with the usual Some::MixedCap naming, or the > > "lowercase implies pragma" rule gets badly diluted. > > Agreed. > > I think the existing Thread:: namespace is the right place for > 'thread utility' modules. The fact that some existing modules in > that namespace are for the old 5005 threads isn't a big issue.
To keep the rule even simpler Arthur thinks that "Threads" is the way to go. "Do Threadsss with an sss and a Capital Tee." (See my message from few minutes back for the full picture.) (Yes, this means that the old "Thread" becomes a noman's land.) > Tim. > -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
