I'd still like to know what you did that broke storable. It seems to work great for other people, and if there is (or used to be?) a problem, mentioning it lets it get fixed.

Lets not spread FUD.

Anybody who has been coding Perl since "1995", and has been here on PM longer than I have should know that the first thing to do when a bug is discovered in a module is to report it via the official bug tracker for the software. On Storable's (and all other's) CPAN page, this link is located at the right side of the page. On its (or any) listing on metacpan, click on "Issues", on the left hand side.

I feel it very irresponsible and disrespectful to blatantly state that a module is not fit for use as you have. As SuicideJunkie pointed out, Storable has been in core since pre-5.8.0. You should know as well as I that the perl5-porters maintain core modules (with over/insight by the original author, per perlpolicy), and that for core issues, one would email the perl5-porters list with their complaints before recommending against the use of a module.

Personally, I can't say one way or another that I'm a good coder or not, but I'd be pretty disturbed if someone was recommending against the use of one of my modules, if the person doing so didn't even take the time to inform me through one of many channels about the problems that bring one to such outright contempt.

with their complaints before recommending against the use of a module

Lets not get overboard into silly territory

Make your recommendations however you like, but do report the bugs

also ignore sundialsvc4, he isn't a perl programmer, he is at most a copy/paste spambot