If you want to help the advancement of Perl and CPAN, offer him constructive examples of how something may be written more efficiently.

I did. By pointing to other, much better modules, and by rewriting his code as regexes that are much more efficient than the original code. Doesn't matter much, though. This module simply does not belong on CPAN.

Where the name is concerned: open source project have all kinds of screwy names.

Bizarre names are good. Bizarre namespaces in Perl modules are not (even HandyDandy would have been better than Handy::Dandy.)

It is up to the PAUSE moderators to approve or disapprove name spaces.

PAUSE apparently is not moderated. I have yet to see any sign of that. I'd like strict moderation of CPAN, and I'd like to see my modules in the (still manually maintained) module list, but anyone can upload anything, and module registrations seem to be ignored.

In the comments here, you were quite full of righteousness over the level you've reached here.

Excuse me? The level I have reached on PerlMonks has no meaning at all, anyone can be a saint. That I released a few modules to CPAN also means nothing, anyone can upload modules (as once again made clear). Where do you see me being proud? I'm only proud to not have put my Handy::Dandy-like modules on CPAN. (Yes, of course I wrote code like that too when I began learning Perl. But I never had the guts to release it. That's a good thing, I know now.)

I implore you to stop and think about the best possible solution for an issue and figure out how to reach it without causing conflict.

I already thought about solutions, and asked TOMMY to remove the module from CPAN. It is the best (and in my opinion only) solution to the problem that is Handy::Dandy. I'm not trying to cause any conflict, but it appears the word 'fool' does have that impact.

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