Re: A Peeve of Great Pettishness

What should this module do, if anything?

What special side effects should it have? Special variables? Special functions?

My thinking is that it should be largely useless, somewhat curious, marginally helpful (but perhaps not helpful enough to justify using it) and occasionally annoying.

Unless someone can give me a better idea...

Perhaps it should be Blovinator::Purple ?? Nah, that's too rational. If I need another color, it only makes perverse sense to do Purple::Blovinator::Green (for example).

But, it really shouldn't be at the top level, should it? It should be subordinated into an existing top-level package, don't you think? Especially since it's value-free. 
package Purple::Blovinator;

use 5.008003;
use strict;
use warnings;

require Exporter;
our @ISA = qw(Exporter);
our @EXPORT_OK = qw( toString );
our $VERSION = '1.00';

{
   sub toString { __PACKAGE__ }

   sub new { return bless {}, shift }
   
   # ...
}
1;

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In reply to RFC: Purple::Blovinator by rje

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