Re: RFC: SWISH::API

On Sep 22, 2006, at 21:58, Peter Karman wrote:

> I am in the midst of making some changes to SWISH::API and while  
> I'm at it,
> thinking about Swish-e 3. I wondered what others think about the  
> current
> implementation of SWISH::API. Are there things you like about it?  
> Things you don't?
>
> There was a thread here http://swish-e.org/archive/ 
> 2004-11/8620.html about this
> subject awhile back. Just before the last release, as a matter of  
> fact.
>
> Here are some thoughts I've had; please comment.
>
> 1. Make it easier to subclass
>
> 2. As in the link above, let new() accept an array or arrayref of  
> index names.
> Or better yet, key/value pairs like other OO Perl modules.
>
> 3. Add an indexing API of some kind.
>
> Don't worry about whether the current code would support your API  
> ideas. Just
> toss 'em out here.
> -- 
> Peter Karman  .  http://peknet.com/  .  [email protected]
>

A really minor thing that manages to drive me crazy is the method  
naming conventions being so different to perl's standards (ok,  
conventions). Upper case methods, in other words.

cheers

nic