Author: chip Date: Mon Apr 17 08:35:24 2006 New Revision: 12289 Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/pdd21_namespaces.pod
Log: Rename name() method to get_name() for consistency and to allow for eventual possibility of set_name(). Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/pdd21_namespaces.pod ============================================================================== --- trunk/docs/pdds/pdd21_namespaces.pod (original) +++ trunk/docs/pdds/pdd21_namespaces.pod Mon Apr 17 08:35:24 2006 @@ -229,13 +229,15 @@ =over 4 -=item $P0 = name() +=item $P0 = get_name() -Returns the name of the namespace as an array of strings. So if the current -language is Perl 5 and the current Perl 5 namespace is "Some::Module" (that's -Perl 5 syntax), then name() returns an array of "perl5", "Some", "Module". +Gets the name of the namespace as an array of strings. For exmaple, if the +current language is Perl 5 and the current Perl 5 namespace is "Some::Module" +(that's Perl 5 syntax), then get_name() on that namespace returns an array of +"perl5", "Some", "Module". -NOTE: This is a naive method. It does not account for any aliasing. +NOTE: Due to aliasing, this value may be wrong, even if nobody's been playing +around with it. =back
