Re^3: Module Naming Dilemma

I hope that you've documented (and possibly checked!) that your aliases can't contain things like :: in them.

If I didn't know how it was implemented, I could easily see myself being bitten by that.

(Note: I happen to agree with Perrin's response in your diary. I happen to dislike the idea and wouldn't use it. But then again, I don't have to.)

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Re^4: Module Naming Dilemma by Ovid (Cardinal) on Jan 05, 2005 at 16:05 UTC
I don't understand. Why can't they have "::" in them? This works: `use aka "Really::Long::Module::Name", as => "R::Name"; my $foo = R::Name->some_class_method;` [download] However, messing with someone else's namespace is a really bad idea and it is documented that the programmer shouldn't do that. Cheers, Ovid New address of my CGI Course.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Module Naming Dilemma by tilly (Archbishop) on Jan 05, 2005 at 22:53 UTC
I was assuming that you were just assigning to a typeglob to get the function created, in which case the appropriate typeglob manipulation would either put that in the wrong package or would need extra logic. I guess that you either did it differently than I expected, or you have the necessary extra logic.	[reply]
Re^6: Module Naming Dilemma by Ovid (Cardinal) on Jan 06, 2005 at 16:44 UTC
I didn't do the typeglob trick because putting things into other packages breaks stuff. I just create a sub that returns the package names (there's more than that, but not much.) Cheers, Ovid New address of my CGI Course.	[reply]