You are right. I, along with many others, get stuff from CPAN for free. That said, some of us do try to return the favor by either contributing back or sharing what knowledge we can. I don't think that invalidates my request that more thought goes into a CPAN module than how many cool, new features can be incorporated that many folks can not use for one reason or another.

I ask that you bear in mind that there can be outside factors that prevent one from running the latest and greatest at every chance. There are shops out there that still use 5.6 for valid technical reasons, and they are chomping at the bit for those reasons to be removed. Others are on 5.8 for outside reasons, and will change as soon as a 3rd-party vendor makes changes.

In the meantime, the shops I have direct knowledge of contribute back to CPAN as an acknowledgement of their debt to others as well as take an active part in the Perl community.

I understand and appreciate the position you stated, and will even grant that there are more than a few who are fully covered by it, but I think you paint with too broad a brush.

It helps to remember that the primary goal is to drain the swamp even when you are hip-deep in alligators.

In reply to Re^3: Make $^V and "my" implicit by boftx
in thread Make $^V and "my" implicit by gunzip

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