From: dblack@... Date: 2002-10-30T11:13:55+09:00 Subject: Re: good link to read as we contemplate RAA, RAA.succ, et al Hi -- On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Simon Cozens wrote: > " JamesBritt" writes: > > That's what popped into my mind, too. A definitive name is great if > > there is but one definitive module. > > But as I mentioned, if there's a definitive name, you have to think > more carefully about why you're writing a different module, and your > name should reflect what's distinctive about it. Consider > HTML::Parser, HTML::TokeParser and HTML::TreeBuilder. You can easily tell > that they're all HTML parsing libraries but they have distinctive styles. Then again, if you're writing an HTML parser that does what HTML::Parser does, but does it (in your opinion) better, or faster, or whatever, then it's potentially a pain to have to find a synonym or near-synonym to use as a name. David -- David Alan Black home: dblack@candle.superlink.net work: blackdav@shu.edu Web: http://pirate.shu.edu/~blackdav