From: Jason S. <jas...@gm...> - 2008-04-21 09:09:56
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Hey William, On 16/04/2008, William S Fulton <ws...@fu...> wrote: > Changing the variable names in perl5.cxx to more accurately reflect the > change is of course fine. I can't see the name 'fullmodule' being used > anywhere else anyway. I was thinking about consistency with other modules - if they use the variable name 'fullmodule' and I change it for perl5.cxx - it might confuse maintainers in the future. > With respect to the 'package' attribute in %module, it looks like it works > the same as in Python. Is that right? If not it is a bit confusing, can you > explain the differences? Ideally one feature name works the same (in the > context of the two different languages), otherwise it might be wiser to > change the name. If different, perhaps you can make it work the same as > Python's? I fully agree. I'm not 100% sure what the python attribute does, but it was my intent to capture that functionality when I first suggested it a year ago. If it is different, I can change the name. Cheers, jas. |