In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there a namespace for pretend modules, modules which do not exist > and should not be installed? I was thinking of using names beginning > with an underscore, it's fairly certain that [EMAIL PROTECTED] will not > allocate such a namespace to any real modules. i've thought of this before when i needed to test various things. i'd really like to see a reserved namespace that we promise never to register (just like example.com is a fictitous domain). people can still make whatever modules they like on their own systems, but i guess they can also set up local nameservers to handle example.com too. initially i thought that Perl 6 should know about this special namespace, but decided against it. it's not really that good if you can't use it with the actual bits that process other modules. to turn this into practice, we just need a gaggle of writers to start using it as if it always existed. :) some suggestions: Example::* Foo::* Pretend::* -- brian d foy (one of many PAUSE admins), http://pause.perl.org please send all messages back to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
