Future of Text_Password

I just rolled version 1.1.1 of Text_Password, which I'm hoping will be the last release of this package. Fear not, I have no intentions of giving up its development. What I'm instead aiming for is creating a new package which will inherit the functionality of Text_Password and will on top of that provide a bit more. In the past it has become obvious to me that I have been using Text_Password for much more than just creating passwords. I basically used it everywhere where I needed to produce "nice looking" random string. That's why I think it is time for a new package Text_Random with the following features: * Generating of random strings using predefined or custom-built generators. Assuming that Text_Random inherits the features of Text_Password, there would at least be a generator for creating ordinary passwords and one for creating pronounceable ones. * "Pretty-printing" of generated random strings. The default would be to just return the generated string. Additionally I can think of string writers that split up a random string into same-sized blocks to make reading or spelling them easier. In this case, a random string "ABCDEFGHIJKL" would e.g. become "ABCD-EFGH-IJKL" or something like that. * Hooks for making sure that generated strings are really unique. Often you might want to query a memcached instance or a database with the generated string to see if it isn't used in an existing record already. This could be realized by utilizing some sort of hooking infrastructure. I'm sure that are a gazillion more things that should go into Text_Random, which is why I invite all of you to share your ideas before I start thinking about the architecture of this thing. -Martin