I'm playing around with some code to parse FITS format files. My immediate interest is in accessing data in the Guide Star Catalog. Along the way I'm putting together a fairly useful pure Perl object oriented FITS parser which looks like it should really be contributed to CPAN, but where does it FITS?

The obvious name space is Astro::FITS. But it is less obvious, to me at least, what this parserish code should be called. As a working title I'm using Astro::FITS::Parser, but maybe it should advertise that it is pure Perl with the speed disadvantages that implies in a context where speed is often important? Maybe too it should advertise that it is OO? Astro::FITS::ParserPPOO looks too ugly (and maybe rude too) for words. And in any case it does more than simply parsing the file - it provides access to the data in the file. Any better ideas for names and/or name spaces?

When it's ready to be rolled out the GSC module is likely to end up as Astro::GSC or Astro::FITS::GSC. Comments?

True laziness is hard work

In reply to Where does it FITS? by GrandFather

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