Re: Moose based Perl library for MARC records

Thanks for your feedback.

> A couple of questions and comments (some left over from the much earlier
> conversion from MARC.pm to the MARC::Record family):
>
> 1. Do you ever expect someone to use both your modules and MARC::Record
> at the same time? If so, you need to be extra careful about name
> overlaps.

No. Marc::Record is a MARC::Record replacement. This is how I use it and 
all Marc:: related subclasses expect a Marc::Record or a subclass of 
Marc::Record.

I do a lot of data conversion using Marc::Record. I've used previously 
MARC::Record. There isn't so much differences, indeed. Marc::Record is 
simpler than MARC::Record. It's just an ArrayRef of Marc::Field objects. 
Similarly,  Marc::Field is just a ArrayRef of ArrayRef which is simpler 
to manipulate than MARC::Field data structure (personal point of view).

For example, a field creation is:

   $field = Marc::Field::Std->new(
     tag => '245',
     subf => [ [ a => 'My title,'], [ b => 'my remainder of title' ] ]
   );

and you get instant number of subfields with:

   @{$field->subf} (in scalar context)


> 2. MARC::Record also handles data as objects - just not the same objects
> as Moose. I think choices like MARC::OO and MARC::Object might be
> confusing to new users in the future.

I also tend not to like much saying explicitly an object is object or a 
Moose object...

--
Frédéric