in reply to Proposal: change in the [cpan://module] shortcut

What about the people who do stuff like look for one of the [cpan://CGI|CGI::*] modules? I have used this quite a few times in the past. How do you translate that?

Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re: Re: Proposal: change in the [cpan://module] shortcut
by mugwumpjism (Hermit) on Feb 16, 2004 at 22:35 UTC

    I think in the case where the string is an exact match for a module or distribution, it is acceptable behaviour for it to just point to the matched module, no?

    Maybe forcing use of [cpan://CGI::|CGI::*] would be a good compromise.

    $h=$ENV{HOME};my@q=split/\n\n/,`cat $h/.quotes`;$s="$h/." ."signature";$t=`cat $s`;print$t,"\n",$q[rand($#q)],"\n";
      And what about the nodes which are already written?

      Makeshifts last the longest.

        I agree, lets never ever change anything again.
      Nah, the current search for CGI::* works just fine. So, having the URL translator be on the lookout for a wildcard star, and turn back to the old translation, would be quite acceptable.