I can only wonder though, why you need cross-referencing to get a handle on your project. With a decent design using modern techniques of abstraction and encapsulation, you shouldn't even need it.

Oh!

Well - then probably the best we can do is to tell the B:xxx authors stop wasting their time implementing such useless tools. While it is almost exactly 13 years since I used (and needed) Cross Referencing on some projects of mine, I completedly disagree, that "modern techniques" and discipline and cleverness (I've added that) are enough to carve complex large prototypes flawlessly in perl.

I had a dispute - long time ago - with a student about the need of some parser-generator for perl. (Was before Parse::RecDescent, perlyacc etc.). He said:

"You don't need a parser-generator in perl, because you already have regexps. The rest is done in a while-loop."

Your argument seems pretty same to me.

Bye
 PetaMem

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