I have to say I am surprised this one made it into the top level namespace.

Then you misunderstand how CPAN works. Once an author has a PAUSE id, she can upload whatever modules she wants. It's only entry into the module list that you need approval for - and I'm guessing that Slurp hasn't yet made it into there.

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