I’m on the fence about this…

I have given a lot of advice here I would not give today. I would not recommend Class::DBI, Path::Class, IO::All, Starman, or quite a few other things I have before. This is one of the reasons I find StackOverlfow generally odious in spite of its many otherwise merits; Vote to close: questions are answered and never shall they be revisited.

Some advice I’ve given was good advice at one point but better exists now. Some advice I’ve given was because I didn’t know any better and no one realized or knew the need to step up to show better, so some of it stands as potentially authoritative in some degree.

There are algorithmic and design discussions here that will be valid for years or decades. Many of the code answers are stale in a year and it’s a great strength of this site that so many monks are willing to entertain revisiting and refining even basic questions.

And as far as edits: U WOT M8?! There is also nothing wrong with gracious edits that accept responsibility for poorly chosen words, technical or otherwise.

In reply to Re^2: PM Guide to editing nodes. by Your Mother
in thread PM Guide to editing nodes. by cheako

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