Boolean As a Top Level Name

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Date	2016-09-09 14:33 -0500
Subject	Boolean As a Top Level Name
From	jgamble@ripco.com ("John M. Gamble")

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A while back I was granted co-maintenance of Algorithm::QuineMcCluskey. It
handles one Boolean expression at a time, and I decided that it would be
good to create a package that could manipulate a Boolean truth table.

So Boolean::TruthTable is nearly ready to go (I have documentation to
complete).

But, to handle the columns in the table, I created a base class.
Algorithm::QuineMcCluskey would become a child of this class (because
after all this is done, I'm going to explore other algorithms).

Naming this class is a little trickier. It's not an algorithm, so I don't
think using the Algorithm top level is appropriate. I'm settling on
Boolean::Minimizer (which is what the algorithms do).

Now the potential problem is that Boolean isn't used much as a top-level
name. I can only find 'boolean', the pragma for using true and false
values, and Boolean-String, which has a 0.01 release and hasn't been
updated since.

So are there any objections to my using Boolean as a top level name in
earnest?

     -john

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Boolean As a Top Level Name jgamble@ripco.com ("John M. Gamble") - 2016-09-09 14:33 -0500
  Re: Boolean As a Top Level Name pagaltzis@gmx.de (Aristotle Pagaltzis) - 2016-09-10 05:58 +0200
    Re: Boolean As a Top Level Name paul@pjcj.net (Paul Johnson) - 2016-09-10 14:46 +0200
      Re: Boolean As a Top Level Name Smylers@stripey.com (Smylers) - 2016-09-12 11:55 +0100
        Re: Boolean As a Top Level Name paul@pjcj.net (Paul Johnson) - 2016-09-12 13:12 +0200
          Re: Boolean As a Top Level Name Smylers@stripey.com (Smylers) - 2016-09-12 12:44 +0100
            Re: Boolean As a Top Level Name paul@pjcj.net (Paul Johnson) - 2016-09-12 14:18 +0200
      Re: Boolean As a Top Level Name david@cantrell.org.uk (David Cantrell) - 2016-09-12 18:23 +0100
      Re: Boolean As a Top Level Name litt@acm.org (Timothe Litt) - 2016-09-11 19:00 -0400

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