[Chicago-talk] lowercase package names
Steven Lembark
lembark at wrkhors.com
Wed Aug 24 04:51:54 PDT 2005
-- Jim Thomason <thomasoniii at gmail.com>
> Okay, you piqued my curiousity. Care to share why you need a
> lowercased package name?
>
> AFAIK, lowercase package names are pragmas by convention, but (like
> damn near everything else in the language) isn't actually enforced in
> any fashion.
Convention onl.
The restriction on package names is
__PACKAGE__ =~ /^\w+$/;
and the module has to be named __PACKAGE__ . '.pm'
for loading via require.
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