1nickt:

If it's a race, I'd expect the swift to win... ;^)

On a more serious note: Pulling in a module for such a simple task doesn't seem as good as simply making a simple subroutine and giving it a good name.

Certainly, for more intricate operations, modules can be very useful. But if you need a particular small routine (like this one), and it servers a particular purpose correctly (like this one), and it's unlikely to need maintenance (like this one), then I think a well-named subroutine beats the module seven days a week. That's the same reason I don't use File::Slurp.

For my projects, I frequently have several utility functions I use repeatedly. But rather than pull in several different modules each for a different little thing like this, I just keep my MCM::Utils module that contains all of the ones I frequently use. This way, I pull in one module, and have all of them. (Perhaps I ought to clean it up and publish a 'Robojunk' module to cpan module...)

...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

In reply to Re^4: Merge 2 strings like a zip by roboticus
in thread Merge 2 strings like a zip by tel2

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