Re: Review of CGI::Alternatives

> on the corelist joined by other bits we desperately need and use EVERY SINGLE DAY like CGI::Carp, Data::Dumper and File::Slurp.

Data::Dumper has been in core since 5.005 and isn't planned to go away.

File::Slurp has problems, but there are alternatives, but that's probably something you don't like to hear about Perl modules.

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Re^2: Review of CGI::Alternatives by Anonymous Monk on Jun 11, 2018 at 16:07 UTC
I did say corelist as you point out but was thinking perl should be able to dump data structures with a core function. But I know who's in charge so it's just my much-less informed opinion, from a purely practical standpoint of always having to add Data::Dumper when things go awry. If this was wrong they probably wouldn't have bundled dumping into Perl6. I have beaten File::Slurp to death (also core perl6 functionality afaik) and the only time it failed was write_file with 2GB of data (syswrite error). I just wish Perl5 had perfect versions of read_dir, read_file and write_file to expedite what's usually done with readdir, open and print.	[reply]

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Re^2: Review of CGI::Alternatives
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 11, 2018 at 16:07 UTC

I did say corelist as you point out but was thinking perl should be able to dump data structures with a core function. But I know who's in charge so it's just my much-less informed opinion, from a purely practical standpoint of always having to add Data::Dumper when things go awry. If this was wrong they probably wouldn't have bundled dumping into Perl6. I have beaten File::Slurp to death (also core perl6 functionality afaik) and the only time it failed was write_file with 2GB of data (syswrite error). I just wish Perl5 had perfect versions of read_dir, read_file and write_file to expedite what's usually done with readdir, open and print.

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