Not to be the party pooper (I do appreciate the joke), but shouldn't that have been in the Acme namespace?
Yes and no. Yes, because it is a nonsense module. But it is documented properly (it is technically correct) and there is not much chance someone doesn't notice this is a joke. It even has unit tests (well, one test and 1233 unconditional "ok"s :).
Besides that, the module will of course be deleted from CPAN tomorrow.
Hmmm - I like it -- when can we expect Gtk::BlueScreen ?
btw does it also work when using die $! instead of die "$!" ?
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No, it does not work outside of double quotes. This is documented.
The actual reason for this is that it is very hard to parse Perl code. I could have used code => sub { s/\$!/'Unknown error'/g }, but guess what that would have done with print q!$$!;.
I worked around this by making a feature out of this lack of feature. To learn about the details, please read the documentation. You have approximately 70 hours left before it is deleted from CPAN.
This looks like definate Handy dandy CPAN pollution to me. Does your hypocrisy have no limits?
Yes, this is pollution. Every April fool's joke is unclean in one way or another. For some reason, if you say it is a joke (Like "This is an April fool's joke" in the Gentoo newsletter or a module in the Acme:: namespace), it is no longer funny.
Anyway, Filter::Microsoft is not here to stay. CPAN should be a clean place, 364 days a year :)