Recognize that all the people in pmdev and gods are volunteers.

I do, and I respect their efforts to make things better. However, I do find it a bit odd that none of the people who have the power to implement replied (well, you did now (and thank you for that)).

I know personally I respond much better to requests, or "Wouldn't it be cool ifs" than things that sound like demands.

The title is provoking to draw attention to the issue. This is not a new problem, and there has been discussion about it before. When you strip Dumper() off the given code, you get a hash reference that I'm sure can be turned into something useful for the database. This doesn't fix the individual perlfunc =items or the ones from perlfaq, but there haven't been that much changes in those (afaik).

If my request sounds like a demand (which I can imagine with this title), please excuse me.

maybe someone else will step up to the plate.

I surely hope so! (And many others do too)

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