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In article <200107290500.WAA02831@ventrue.corp.yahoo.com>, jfriedl@yahoo-inc.com (Jeffrey Friedl) wrote: > Hiho, > Here's a patch which implements clamp, etc., via Readonly.pm, an XS module. I know this is of subordinate importance to the issues Nick raised, but I am not happy with the function names. > +=head2 Readonly::Set($scalar) > +=head2 Readonly::Clear($scalar) > +=head2 Readonly::Check($scalar) > +=head2 Readonly::Hash(%Hash) > +=head2 Readonly::ClearHash(%Hash) > +=head2 Readonly::CheckHash(%Hash) > +=head2 Clamp::Set(%hash, FLAGS) > +=head2 Clamp::Check(%hash) > +=head2 Clamp::Keys(%hash) > +=head2 Clamp::ClearKeys(%hash) > +=head2 Clamp::CheckKeys(%hash) > +=head2 Clamp::Access(%hash) > +=head2 Clamp::ClearAccess(%hash) > +=head2 Clamp::CheckAccess(%hash) From perlstyle: > Function and method names seem to work best as all > lowercase. E.g., $obj->as_string(). set, clear, check, clear_hash, check_hash, etc. would be my preference. Also, I'd prefer the function names to be verbs; "Hash" doesn't quite fit. -- Chris Nandor pudge@pobox.com http://pudge.net/ Open Source Development Network pudge@osdn.com http://osdn.com/Thread Previous | Thread Next