[Catalyst-dev] RT #36209: convert internal path seperators for clarity

[Matt S Trout]

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:45:13AM -0300, Brian Cassidy wrote:
> On behalf of "KONOBI <konobi at cpan.org>":
> 
> convert internal path seperators for clarity
> 
> This had been talked about before, but should ticket it up.
> 
> There is a confusion in general with users, especially new ones, about
> the difference between an internal path and a uri. We had talked about
> switching it out so that internal paths would use ":" as a seperator
> instead of "/", but allow both for back-compat.

What I've never quite worked out is why nobody confuses URIs and template
paths,. but they do confuse the private path.

: seems reasonable, though I do wonder why we can't just use :: and stop
lc'ing things so it becomes

$c->forward('Foo::bar') for MyApp::Controller::Foo::bar?

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