in reply to On naming modules/asking for advice

I like to just soak up opinions, and slowly make up my mind.

Yesterday I released two modules. XML::SAX::ExpatNB was written just so that the ::ExpatNB name will be taken. I thought of naming XML::SAX::Expat::Incremental ::ExpatNB to maintain consistency with XML::Parser::ExpatNB, but in the end reasoned against it. Here's how:

I brought it up on the chatterbox. Eventually after lots of arguing I decided that both ::ExpatNB and ::Incremental are good/important, for different reasons (consistency and correctness respectively).

Initially I would have released ::Incremental as ::ExpatNB, and just left it as that. While my motives for naming it as I planned did not change, ideas, implications, and terms I have not thought of were slowly brought up in the discussion, and eventually made me settle.

-nuffin
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