Re^7: div in cgi

Metacpan allows you to select old versions and view the POD, like search.cpan used to. What you mention is one of the issues I raised, a lot of old info that's highly ranked on search engines (some of it at legally questionable), vastly out of date, and still championed by a vocal minority.

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Re^8: div in cgi by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Sep 13, 2018 at 18:27 UTC
While I am one of the “don’t learn CGI.pm today” crowd I am also quite sad about the loss of CGI::Pretty and related methods in CGI and I think it’s a mistake to deprecate and phase them out. There is no real gain but confusion. CGI::Simple or even CGI::Tiny should have been the target.	[reply]
Re^8: div in cgi by LanX (Saint) on Sep 13, 2018 at 19:56 UTC
I was explaining why I was confused (remember you asked!) and the docs are misleading. I already found the original version, but how can I or another reader know that I need to look up the original version if the new POD is pointing into the wrong direction. I agree about the OP, but the doc could be clearer when breaking old websites like PM. update And I can understand that Lee didn't want to maintain the AUTOLOAD code in CGI::Pretty Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice}	[reply]

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