Re: Boolean As a Top Level Name

I think I'd look for such a module in the Math:: namespace.

I also found these modules which may be similar:  Math::BooleanEval,
Math::MatrixBool.

On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 12:33 PM, John M. Gamble <[email protected]> wrote:

> A while back I was granted co-maintenance of Algorithm::QuineMcCluskey. It
> handles one Boolean expression at a time, and I decided that it would be
> good to create a package that could manipulate a Boolean truth table.
>
> So Boolean::TruthTable is nearly ready to go (I have documentation to
> complete).
>
> But, to handle the columns in the table, I created a base class.
> Algorithm::QuineMcCluskey would become a child of this class (because
> after all this is done, I'm going to explore other algorithms).
>
> Naming this class is a little trickier. It's not an algorithm, so I don't
> think using the Algorithm top level is appropriate. I'm settling on
> Boolean::Minimizer (which is what the algorithms do).
>
> Now the potential problem is that Boolean isn't used much as a top-level
> name. I can only find 'boolean', the pragma for using true and false
> values, and Boolean-String, which has a 0.01 release and hasn't been
> updated since.
>
> So are there any objections to my using Boolean as a top level name in
> earnest?
>
>      -john
>
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