Re^2: Namespaces contiguous in the entirety

While you're at it, your lint process may want to catch that there should only be one package statement per file, and that package statement should match the filename, including path, from some entry in @INC, with directory separators becoming ::, and a .pm thrown on at the end.

My (limited) reading of modules leads me to think this is overkill. I've seen multiple package statements in a module for classes/namespaces derived from the main module, but the package was too small to worry about creating separate files. (I wonder how many modules in the core distribution make use of multiple package statements?)

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Re^3: Namespaces contiguous in the entirety
by Tanktalus (Canon) on Sep 28, 2005 at 23:20 UTC

That's actually kind of my point. Convention says this is what you're supposed to do. However, convention also allows for alternatives. Convention says that each package appears once, at the top of a .pm file of the same name where ::'s are converted to directory separators. Which means that you should only have one package per file, and that you should never overlap with others' packages.

In reality, there can be valid reasons for bucking convention. Packages that are too small to worry about separate files is a valid one. Hiding a package is another one - e.g., how mirod hides XML::Twig::Elt inside the XML/Twig.pm. Although in this case, it may be partly because XML::Twig and XML::Twig::Elt are so tightly intertwined that there could be fun times in trying to compile them in separate units. Other cases may have tightly tied packages where using the wrong one first can't resolve BEGIN blocks appropriately. Or other tightly tied packages where the other packages would take longer to locate on disk than is worth it.

I really don't have a problem with the OP's suggestion. As long as there is a clean and easy way to turn it off when I know what I'm doing. Such as what TimToady suggests.

use CGI::Application;
class CGI::Application is also {
  # stuff we want to add to the CGI::Application namespace.
};
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I'm not sure if there will be any perl 6 diagnostics for ~~packages~~ classes in the wrong file, though, as I had suggested to the OP.

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