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On 2022-02-12 12:48 a.m., Darren Duncan wrote: > On 2022-02-12 12:42 a.m., G.W. Haywood via perl5-porters wrote: >> On Fri, 11 Feb 2022, Ovid via perl5-porters wrote: >> >>> ... given that the best alternative I had was `library`, I chose >>> `module`. Suggestions welcome. >> >> Trying for a short word which will be substantially different and >> hopefully not be too contentious, >> >> as in basement: vault >> as in capsule: pill >> as in pile: rick >> >> Come to think of it, 'capsule' doesn't seem too bad even if it is >> seven characters. A good thesaurus is your friend. > > That's exactly what I said a few times, including earlier in this very thread, a > good thesaurus is your friend, use it to take words without existing use in the > field so you can invent the meaning you want. > > This being said, following my own advice when naming things in the past, I found > there is a huge overlap between appropriate names for libraries/modules/etc and > appropriate names for collection data types. > > Regarding "capsule" specifically, while that could work, I feel it sounds more > like a container data type. But whatever. Responding to myself, what I specifically thought at the time was that "capsule" was a good alternate name to essentially the same concept as an "object". And I actually used the name Capsule for a time as a data type, before I ended up changing the name to Article (as in "article of clothing" or "newspaper article") in my own project. -- Darren DuncanThread Previous | Thread Next