Re: Naming stuff is hard.. Data::Topology::JSON
[email protected] (Smylers)
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Aaron Trevena writes: > On 24 October 2016 at 09:49, Smylers <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If your module is Json-specifiec and there already exists a JSON:: > > top-level namespace, then I think it's much better to put it > > somewhere under JSON:: than Data::, which is so generic it tells > > users very little about the module's purpose. > > The main idea/purpose isn't json specific - this could apply to mongo > or any other nosql data source, I'm using it for postgres jsonb data > in this project. OK. In that case Data::Topology::JSON probably doesn't work either, for the same reason. > If I was looking for a way to get RDF or other metadata from mongo I > wouldn't be looking for JSON::Schema::Inferred. True. There's an awkward balance between picking a name that is too specific, and therefore misleading, and one that's so general that it's too abstract for readers to glean what situations it does cover. Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2