Thanks for all the variants, I've learned some things I've missed before and re-learned some things I've forgotten (this seems to happen every time I don't use perl for a couple of months or so).
The problem I see with SSCCE (despite its benefits) is that it encourages "particularization" instead of generalization; so after getting example-tailored responses, one has to play whack-a-mole with them to get to the original, abstract problem / "programming malaise".
Then again, those example-tailored responses always teach new bits of ingenuity. Anyway, thanks again.
