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Eric Wilhelm (6389)

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Saturday May 24, 2008
02:59 AM

the "::Er" brand

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Tonight I kicked-off the "Er.pm" brand with the HTTP::Server::Simple::Er module. I don't know if I'll be able to build the brand to the level of Adam's "::Tiny", but we'll see.

In any case, I seem to always want something more from an API and I tend to get deadlocked thinking of names instead of writing code. Plus, it amuses me that "Eric's Rewrite|Redesign" neatly abbreviates to "Er" and acts as a pun suffix ;-)

And, it is also rather "Er" in some cases. That is, the "::Er" modules are likely to be just about the opposite of "::Tiny", because I usually want more cowbell and I probably expect that you're running a perl which was released in the last 5 years with a working toolchain.

It also might stand for "Experimental Release" or "Emphasis on Rabbit". If we had a tidier way to run forked API's in our namespace, we wouldn't have to talk about what it means.

Anyway, that's one more distraction^Wdependency down, and only about 6 to go before the task at hand is actually done...


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  • But remember I was way ahead of you [activestate.com] :-)
    • I don't get it... what exactly does it mean?

      Are there criteria for it?

      Or is it just "my extensions to stuff"...

      • It is typically not "my extensions to ...", and much more likely "my frustrations with ..." or "my attempt to rethink ...". If it were a simple matter of extensions or mixins, those could usually be given a proper namespace.

        In a couple of the cases on my todo list, the original API simply grates on me and the only way forward is a complete rewrite.

        So, usually it is a sort of "I wish it had been done this way to start with" or "what if..." and like I said: probably an experiment.
  • CGI::Fast::Er :-)
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