Re: Namespace for local/internal modules?

Indeed, Local:: is the namespace you should use for local things. There are a handful of modules in this namespace if you search CPAN, but if you look closely they're mostly in "examples" directories, not in "lib", so will usually not get installed.

local::lib and some of its friends are unfortunate. Technically they're not violating the rule, but on case-insensitive filesystems they might as well be.

If you have a CPAN ID yourself, you can always use your own CPAN ID (in all caps) as a namespace. Many people regard that as a namespace that 100% belongs to the owner of the CPAN ID. That is, I could release a module called TOBYINK::Monkey, but for anyone else to do so would be outrageous.

perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'

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Re^2: Namespace for local/internal modules? by Anonymous Monk on May 23, 2012 at 23:29 UTC
Thanks for the clarification about Local::. And I did not know about using CPAN ID's as top level namespaces. That seems more ideal since others can get at it. (One of the reasons I haven't released some of my better modules is that, especially for mathematical modules, there's no good name other than the thing being implemented like "Math::CholeskyDecomposition" or whatever, but there are multiple ways of doing math in perl (Math::GSL, PDL, Math::Matrix, straight vanilla perl, etc), so I don't want to usurp the namespace.)	[reply]
Re^2: Namespace for local/internal modules? by Anonymous Monk on May 24, 2012 at 00:37 UTC
"If you have a CPAN ID yourself, you can always use your own CPAN ID (in all caps) as a namespace." -- tobyink. Blech! Aesthetic reasons alone are too strong for me then not to use "Local" instead.	[reply]
Re^2: Namespace for local/internal modules? by Anonymous Monk on May 24, 2012 at 00:21 UTC
Technically they're not violating the rule There is no such rule	[reply]
Re^3: Namespace for local/internal modules? by tobyink (Canon) on May 24, 2012 at 07:59 UTC
`s/rule/strong convention/` `perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Namespace for local/internal modules? by Anonymous Monk on May 24, 2012 at 09:25 UTC
Yes, I knew you wanted to say "convention", but it simply isn't a convention much less a "strong convention" You may have a rule for this, but it isn't widespread	[reply]
Re^5: Namespace for local/internal modules? by Anonymous Monk on May 24, 2012 at 09:33 UTC
Re^6: Namespace for local/internal modules? by tobyink (Canon) on May 24, 2012 at 12:22 UTC