Re^3: Regex with lookahead

*cool* is in the eye of the beholder, worthy monk:

$ corelist Data::Dumper

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Data::Dumper was first released with perl 5.005

$ corelist Data::Dump

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Data::Dump was not in CORE (or so I think)
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To some, "cool" is working without non-core modules, not necessarily what's newer or more fashionable. I'm not saying that Data::Dump is bad, I'm just pointing out that Data::Dumper is available with almost any Perl 5 install.

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Re^4: Regex with lookahead by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Aug 05, 2017 at 17:50 UTC
IIRC Data::Dump RFC:SHOULD be preferred because it is less exploitable security-wise. I did some searching—the similar names and stemming make it difficult—and could not find a source for my belief though, so take it with a grain of salt. I certainly prefer the default output formatting in any case. :P	[reply]
Re^5: Regex with lookahead by stevieb (Canon) on Aug 05, 2017 at 20:20 UTC
Thanks for this explanation, and your security concern trumps my "if I forget a random `use Data::Dumper; print Dumper $x;` in a test file, it'll pass on all Perls even though it's not listed as a prereq". Not saying that happens often, but it most definitely has happened.	[reply] [d/l]