In naming a module like this, which improves the core features of Perl, it can help to think ahead to what else you plan to do with it, and what other modules by other authors you imagine might coexist in the namespace.

For example, if you choose Regexp::Thai, then you are basically accepting responsibility for everything Thai-related in regexes. When someone else wants to add some other feature for using Thai with regexes, they'll now have to find another, less appropriate name. Or, at least, use a sub-namespace, which may be confusing to users when their module is (in most respects) unrelated to yours.

Or, when you want to add other Thai-related regex features, you're going to have to expand that same module (because it has already "claimed" the general name). Those extra, perhaps only loosely related features, will complicate the module's interface, and make it "heavier" to load for your existing users too.

So perhaps Regexp::Thai::Properties would be a better name? That way, you leave the higher-level Regexp::Thai name free...maybe for a later module that loads all the Regexp::Thai::<whatever> modules that you and others have eventually contributed.

And, at the same time, you provide a good naming pattern for others to follow. Perhaps later there will be a Regexp::Thai::Debug, or a Regexp::Thai::Transliterate, or a Regexp::Thai::Common, etc. By creating the namespace, but not pre-empting it, you may eventually encourage a larger, richer and more consistently named ecosystem.

Damian

In reply to Re: Namespace/advice for new CPAN modules for Thai & Lao by Thoughtstream
in thread Namespace/advice for new CPAN modules for Thai & Lao by Polyglot

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