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

[J. Shirley]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:57 AM, Matt S Trout <dbix-class at trout.me.uk> wrote:
> 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?
>

That seems by far to make the most sense, and really should clarify things.