Re: Credit card validation (Luhn check algorithm)

On Wed, 22 May 2002, Wolfram Kriesing wrote: > LIMBOURG Arnaud wrote: > > >+1 for a Validation namespace > > > > > yes, Validation is needed, but i think Luhn belongs into algorithm, or not? > it can be used by validation, sure, but it is an algorithm, right? > > -- > Wolfram Unless you're in the business of issuing credit cards, this algorithm could be used only for validation. Really, all of pear is algorithms; we classify them by what they do. There is neither 'function' namespace, nor a 'class' namespace for the same reason. Plus, all of this flat namespace business makes it easy to just look around for the appropriate thing. The pear tool could have some sort of search option too, so a user could use: pear search credit and find the right thing. - Brent