OK, I'm here to face the music!

I really appreciate the work of CPAN Testers and I apologise to any of them who wasted time as a result of my upload.

There is a history of amusing modules being uploaded to CPAN on April 1st. As far as I can tell, the key difference between previous ones (eg: Sex, DNA, Bleach, Buffy) and mine was that XML::Simpler did not contain obfuscated Perl code. I would argue that mine is no more or less useful than the other packages. It does work exactly as the documentation describes.

I think it would be a bit silly of people to boycott my XML::Simple module merely because they didn't like my upload of XML::Simpler. I'm sorry if people feel that way.

Humour is in the eye of the beholder and clearly some people in this forum were not amused.

Once again, I apologise - I intended no offence.

Grant

In reply to Re: (crazyinsomniac: oh i'm excited) Re: new XML module by Anonymous Monk
in thread new XML module by gav^

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