I'm familiar with "::" but it wouldn't pass code review (cleverness reducing readability)

No, it's not being clever.

Do you write package main::Foo::Bar; or package Foo::Bar;? So why do you expect me to use %main:: instead of %::? If I want the root namespace, that's what I use. Not some alias created so you can say "scripts run in main".

Also, using Foo::->method instead of Foo->method solves a real problem. Again, not cleverness.

While "_a" probably wouldn't pass code review (non-meaningful name) it does match the pattern

oops! I saw the pattern for the lead character was shorter, and I somehow imagined that "_" wasn't included.

As already stated, non-ASCII names are disallowed ($work constraint).

That was not mentioned in the question. And you're not the only person using PerlMonks.

In reply to Re^3: Is there an official regex for checking module names? by ikegami
in thread Is there an official regex for checking module names? by kcott

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