[htmltmpl] Re: RFC: template helper module

[Carl F. <ca...@fi...>]

> The functionality seems useful.
> 
> I do suggest using underscores to separate words in method names, 
rather
> than CamelCaps. I believe the underscore style is more common on 
CPAN,
> and is also what's recommended in "perldoc perlstyle":
> 
> http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlstyle.html
> 
>  While short identifiers like $gotit are probably ok, use 
underscores to
>  separate words. It is generally easier to read $var_names_like_this 
than
>  $VarNamesLikeThis, especially for non-native speakers of English. 
It's also a
>  simple rule that works consistently with VAR_NAMES_LIKE_THIS.
> 
>  Package names are sometimes an exception to this rule. Perl 
informally reserves
>  lowercase module names for "pragma" modules like integer and 
strict. Other
>  modules should begin with a capital letter and use mixed case, but 
probably
>  without underscores due to limitations in primitive file systems'
>  representations of module names as files that must fit into a few 
sparse bytes. 
> 
> ####
> 
> Also, if this really does work fine outside of HTML::Template, 
consider
> a more generic name, like CGI:: or HTML:: or WWW::
> 
> You will more easily attract users and contributors of other 
templating
> systems (or no templating system!) this way. 
> 
> 	Mark

Thanks for the good advice Mark.

I will change the method names.

I also realised yesterday that it would probably be best somewhere 
under HTML::
I'm toying with HTML::Menu::DateTime

I'm also currently adding examples for Template::Toolkit to the POD.

Thanks,
Carl Franks