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•Re: Handy dandy CPAN pollution

by merlyn (Sage)
on Dec 26, 2002 at 04:37 UTC ( [id://222288]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Handy dandy CPAN pollution

If you think Handy::Dandy is weird, you clearly haven't seen Meta.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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Re: •Re: Handy dandy CPAN pollution
by jryan (Vicar) on Dec 26, 2002 at 05:45 UTC

    Really, anyone who hasn't seen the glory/horror that is Meta needs to experience it at least once. And don't just gape at the 400+ files in the distribution; look at the source too, and witness such marvels such as this, this, and more!

      I saw this today also: Bundle::Schwern - a bundle of modules that Michael Schwern likes...

      Mike does a lot of great work for the Perl community but this is right along the same lines in terms of lacking description and direction... but then again, CPAN is quite non-judgemental and that has its good points.

      Carter's compass: I know I'm on the right track when by deleting something, I'm adding functionality

Re^2: Handy dandy CPAN pollution
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Dec 26, 2002 at 17:02 UTC
    Nice one.. though the following meme is pretty cute: #!/bin/echo This is a perl module and should not be run

    Makeshifts last the longest.

      Interesting. Takes advantage of a recent change to hash-bang. In the original hash-bang implementation, you'd see only "This {filename}", because hash-bang took only one argument, then put the filename after it.

      So there are definitely places where this hack will not work. Do not consider it portable to all places that support hash-bang, let alone those that don't!

      -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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